Music from a speeding train : Jewish literature in post-revolution Russia / Harriet Murav.

• The stillbirth of revolution -- Socialist construction, the Luftmentsh, and the new Jew -- Fighting the great patriotic war -- In mourning : responding to the destruction of the Jews -- Yeder zeyger a yortsayt : the past as memory in postwar literature -- Jewish spaces and retro-shtetls -- Translating empire -- Afterwards.

• "Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe--one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture. The book emphasizes the Soviet Jewish response to World War II and the Nazi destruction of the Jews, disputing the claim that Jews in Soviet Russia did not and could not react to the killings of Jews. It reveals a largely unknown body of Jewish literature beginning as early as 1942 that responds to the mass killings. By exploring works through the early twenty-first century, the book reveals a complex, emotionally rich, and intensely vibrant Soviet Jewish culture that persisted beyond Stalinist oppression."--Publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Judisk litteratur  (sao)

Rysk litteratur  (sao)

Judar  (sao)

Judisk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Rysk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Russian literature  -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Russian literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Yiddish literature  -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Yiddish literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Russian literature.  (fast)

Yiddish literature.  (fast)

Literatur.  (idszbz)

Russisch.  (idszbz)

Jiddisch.  (idszbz)

Schriftsteller.  (idszbz)

Juden.  (idszbz)

Russian literature  -- Jewish authors. (fast)

Russian literature  -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism (nli)

Russian literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism (nli)

Yiddish literature  -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism (nli)

Yiddish literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism (nli)

Jews  (LCSH)

Jewish literature  (LCSH)

Russian literature  (LCSH)

Sovjetunionen  (sao)

Ryssland  (sao)

Soviet Union.  (fast)

Russland.  (idszbz)

Sowjetunion.  (idszbz)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PG2998.J4 (LCC)

000132442 (NLM)

891.709/892400904 (DDC)