Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) - Hardcover

Safran, Gabriella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804738300 ISBN 13: 9780804738309

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2002

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Book by Safran Gabriella

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Críticas:

"[Safran's] work makes a serious contribution to our understanding of the complex nexus of Jew and Gentile in late Imperial Russia . . . .[It] should be read by anyone interested in the 'Jewish question,' national identities, and literature in the late Russian Empire. " -- Canadian Slavonic Papers "Intelligently and creatively, Safran compares closely the work of the Jewish author, Grigory Bogrov; the Polish author, Eliza Orzeszkowa; and the Russian writers Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov with characterizations of Jews found in Russian letters throughout the whole of the century. In doing so, she demonstrates a familiarity and comfort with both critical themes of pre-Soviet Russian literature and literary criticism and with the broader context of Jewish life in the empire. Accordingly, her work is of genuine interest to students of Russian literature as well as for those committed to the investigation of both Jewish and Russian cultural history in the Tsarist empire." -- The Russian Review "Writ[ten] in a clear, engaging and distinctive style. . . . [Safran] shares her insights on many important aspects of Jewish identity, issues of national identity, acculturation, assimilation, conversion, and anti-Semitism, among others, while she studies her four writers and their literary milieu. For academic libraries." -- Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

Reseña del editor:

In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation, introducing the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their time.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0804738300
• ISBN 13: 9780804738309
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292