Marat Grinberg is professor of Russian and humanities at Reed College. He is the author of I am to be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky and Commissar. He is also coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen also published by Brandeis University Press.

“[An] informative, engagingly written work that . . . pairs thorough research with the personal reading experiences of the author and those close to him.”

• Introduction: The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: There’s “there, there”Chapter One: Lion Feuchtwanger – the Soviet Jewish ScriptureChapter Two: The Core: Salvage FragmentsChapter Three: “Translated from Jewish”: Read and UnreadChapter Four: The Bottom Shelf: Between the Lines of “Reactionary” Judaism and Anti-ZionismChapter Five: Signs of the Times: Yuri Trifonov and the Strugatsky BrothersEpilogue: Perestroika and BeyondNotesBibliography

Marat Grinberg is professor of Russian and humanities at Reed College. He is the author of I am to be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky and Commissar. He is also coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen also published by Brandeis University Press.

“[An] informative, engagingly written work that . . . pairs thorough research with the personal reading experiences of the author and those close to him.”

• Introduction: The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: There’s “there, there”Chapter One: Lion Feuchtwanger – the Soviet Jewish ScriptureChapter Two: The Core: Salvage FragmentsChapter Three: “Translated from Jewish”: Read and UnreadChapter Four: The Bottom Shelf: Between the Lines of “Reactionary” Judaism and Anti-ZionismChapter Five: Signs of the Times: Yuri Trifonov and the Strugatsky BrothersEpilogue: Perestroika and BeyondNotesBibliography

Marat Grinberg is professor of Russian and humanities at Reed College. He is the author of I am to be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky and Commissar. He is also coeditor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen also published by Brandeis University Press.

“[An] informative, engagingly written work that . . . pairs thorough research with the personal reading experiences of the author and those close to him.”

• Introduction: The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: There’s “there, there”Chapter One: Lion Feuchtwanger – the Soviet Jewish ScriptureChapter Two: The Core: Salvage FragmentsChapter Three: “Translated from Jewish”: Read and UnreadChapter Four: The Bottom Shelf: Between the Lines of “Reactionary” Judaism and Anti-ZionismChapter Five: Signs of the Times: Yuri Trifonov and the Strugatsky BrothersEpilogue: Perestroika and BeyondNotesBibliography