Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature

Roman Katsman is an Israeli scholar of Hebrew and Russian literature. He was born in Ukraine in 1969, repatriated to Israel in 1990, and is currently a full professor at Bar-Ilan University and head of the program for Jewish-Russian literature. His most recent books, published by Academic Studies Press, examine Israeli Russian-language literature.Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author, scholar, and translator, is a professor at Boston College. Shrayer was born in Moscow in 1967 and immigrated to the US in 1987. His recent books include A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas and Of Politics and Pandemics. Shrayer’s new literary memoir, Immigrant Baggage, was published in 2023.

“While this book features many different authors and diverse objects of investigation, it also creates a panoramic view of Russian-Israeli literature—both in style and in chronology. The book should be of great interest to scholars and general readers alike. The very notion of ‘Russian-Israeli literature’ (similarly to the notion of ‘Russian-American literature’) will doubtless illicit questions. Some readers might even ask: And where does the writer belong if she or he has two addresses, sometimes even simultaneously, in two different countries? In what category should we place translations into the Russian language? What is the principal difference between Russian-Israeli literature and, say, Yiddish-Israeli or Polish-Israeli literatures? In other words, this book not only offers a great deal of new materials but also invites us to think of the directions of further research.”—Gennady Estraikh, Professor, New York University, author of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness

• From the EditorsRussian-Language Literature in Eretz Israel (Basic Outlines and Authors)Vladimir KhazanJulius Margolin and His TimesLuba JurgensonIsraeli-Soviet Literary Ties in the 1950s–1980s: from Translations to Aliyah LibraryMarat GrinbergLeaving Russia: Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1970s–1980sAleksei SurinPaths of Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in IsraelMaxim D. ShrayerProse of the Aliyah of the 1990s–2000sRoman KatsmanRussian-Israeli Prose in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First CenturyElena PromyshlianskaiaGenres of Israeli-Russian Fantastic FictionElena RimonThe Phenomenon of Russian-Israeli Dramaturgy of the 1970s–2020sZlata ZaretskyFrom the History of Russian Israeli Literary Criticism (On One Method of Delineating Literary Contacts between Russia and Israel) Leonid KatsisAbout the ContributorsIndex