Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists Between Hope and Apostasy

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Author: Efraim Sicher

ISBN-10: 0521481090

ISBN-13: 9780521481090

Category: Russian Literature Anthologies

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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