Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy
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...
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The story of four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period, attempting to resolve their cultural and political identities.
List of illustrationsPreface1Burning embers12Modernist responses to war and revolution: the Jewish Jesus403The Jewishness of Babel714The 'colour' of Judaism: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time1125The father, the son and Holy Russia: Boris Pasternak, Hermann Cohen and the religion of Doctor Zhivago1396Ilia Ehrenburg, the eternal chameleon165Epilogue: Hope betrayed205Notes218Index273
