This study is an innovative and controversial study of how the best-known Jews writing in Russian in early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook and social or ideological pressures. Comparison of literary texts and the visual arts reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change. Sicher provides a fascinating view of intercultural and intertextual connections and contrasts.
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"Sicher's erudition and analysis of the visual arts are excellent....In summarizing the arguments and reconsidering them from the viewpoint of these writers' Jewish identity, Sicher has done a valuable service. For those who know a lot about Russian-Jewish literature, but even for novices, this book is well woth reading." Nationalities Papers
"...an erudite and wide-ranging study. Cambridge University Press should be commended for reissuing it." --The Russian Review
"...an erudite and wide-ranging study. Cambridge University Press should be commended for reissuing it." --The Russian Review
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This study shows how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook and social or ideological pressures. Comparison of literary texts and the visual arts reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change.Sicher provides a fascinating view of intercultural and intertextual connections and contrasts.
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Language has often been deemed a determining factor in the definition of culture, something which in the nineteenth century presumed the correspondence of natural with linguistic boundaries, a Romantic view that drew on Schiller and Fichte. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drugie rasskazy, pogrom victims, linguistic interference, poetic identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Cavalry, Boris Pasternak, Leonid Pasternak, First World War, Russian Jewish, Soviet Union, Isaak Babel, Russian Jewry, Ilia Ehrenburg, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Sholom Aleichem, Julio Jurenito, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Perets Markish, Hermann Cohen, October Revolution, Sholem Asch, Benia Krik, East European Jewry, Ehrenburg's Memoirs, New Testament, Russian Revolution, Lazar Fleishman, Odessa Jew, Osip Mandelstam New!
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Language has often been deemed a determining factor in the definition of culture, something which in the nineteenth century presumed the correspondence of natural with linguistic boundaries, a Romantic view that drew on Schiller and Fichte. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drugie rasskazy, pogrom victims, linguistic interference, poetic identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Cavalry, Boris Pasternak, Leonid Pasternak, First World War, Russian Jewish, Soviet Union, Isaak Babel, Russian Jewry, Ilia Ehrenburg, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Sholom Aleichem, Julio Jurenito, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Perets Markish, Hermann Cohen, October Revolution, Sholem Asch, Benia Krik, East European Jewry, Ehrenburg's Memoirs, New Testament, Russian Revolution, Lazar Fleishman, Odessa Jew, Osip Mandelstam New!
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- Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel on 29 pages
- Doctor Zhivago (Everyman's Library) by Boris Pasternak on 18 pages
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak on 18 pages
- Hope Abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam on 6 pages
- Hope Against Hope: A Memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam on 4 pages
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- Isaak Babel (German Edition) by Reinhard Krumm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Isaak Babel - Eine Biographie by Reinhard Krumm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Routledge Companions) by Neil Cornwell in Back Matter
- The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Routledge Companions) by Neil Cornwell in Back Matter
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