An anthology of Jewish-Russian literature : two centuries of dual identity in prose and poetry
Maxim Shrayer (Editor, Translator)
Gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers who worked in the Russian language. This two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century.The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin.
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volumes <1-2> ; 24 cm
9780765605214, 076560521X
60188739
v. 1. 1801-1953
v. 2. 1953-2001
Literary texts translated from the Russian. This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown