Russian poet, Soviet Jew : the legacy of Eduard Bagritskii
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Russian poet, Soviet Jew : the legacy of Eduard Bagritskii
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000
- :alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This work explores the problem of Jewish identity in the early Soviet period by examining the short career of Eduard Bagritskii, a Russian-Jewish poet. The book investigates what it meant to be both Russian and Jewish, and looks at why Bagritskii became the target of anti-Semitic attacks.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Bagritskii's Jewish, Russian, and Soviet legacy. Part 1 The major Jewish texts: "Origin" - English translation
- "February" - English translation with notes on the text. Part 2 The poetics and politics of Russian-Jewish identity: trials of Bagritskii's Las Testament
- Babel, Bagritskii, and the Jewish trauma of rejection
- the language of Jews and the Russian Silver Age
- Jewish identity and the Russian Revolution
- Jewish self-hatred, Russian anti-Semitism, and Bagritskii's Judaic theme (a propos a conversation with Stanislav Kuniaev). Conclusion: has he "made her wilderness like Eden"? a chronology of life and works. Appendix: Russia text of the poems.
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