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List Books » Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy
Authors: Efraim Sicher, Catriona Kelly (Editor), Anthony Cross
ISBN-13: 9780521025997, ISBN-10: 0521025990
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: 1ST
The story of four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period, attempting to resolve their cultural and political identities.
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Preface | ||
1 | Burning embers | 1 |
2 | Modernist responses to war and revolution: the Jewish Jesus | 40 |
3 | The Jewishness of Babel | 71 |
4 | The 'colour' of Judaism: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time | 112 |
5 | The father, the son and Holy Russia: Boris Pasternak, Hermann Cohen and the religion of Doctor Zhivago | 139 |
6 | Ilia Ehrenburg, the eternal chameleon | 165 |
Epilogue: Hope betrayed | 205 | |
Notes | 218 | |
Index | 273 |