A Double Burden, a Double Cross" : : Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer / / Vladimir Khazan.

If a history of Russian-Jewish literature in the twentieth century (or, at least, a history of its authors and texts) were ever to be written, it would reveal a number of puzzling lacunae. One such lacuna is Andrei Sobol, a truly significant writer who, paradoxically, has not received due scholarly...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Part I. "...And, Apparently, a Very Good Jew": Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Literary Critic and Journalist
  • I.1 Baal-Makhshoves and Andrei Sobol: Two Views on the Purpose and Objectives of Russian-Jewish Literature
  • I.2 The Context and Subtext of Sobol's Open Letter to D. Merezhkovsky
  • I.3 A Battle that Never Happened (Sobol's Unpublished Open Letter to Ivan Bunin)
  • Part II. Andrei Sobol and Evreiskii Mir
  • Part III. Overcoming the Myth: Jewish Themes, Motifs, and Images in Sobol's Works
  • III.1. Between Literature and Politics: Sobol's Novel Pyl'
  • III.2. Jewish Themes, Motifs, and Images in Sobol's Short Stories
  • III.3. The Fate of Sobol's Book Evrei
  • Part IV. Sobol's Translation of Wandering Stars
  • Part V. Andrei Sobol and the Jewish Theater
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index