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From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds
The Memoirs of Irwin Weil
Av Irwin Weil, Tony Brown
Inbunden, 2015
1080 kr
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This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature - Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and …
From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds
The Memoirs of Irwin Weil
Av Irwin Weil, Tony Brown
Häftad, 2015
239 kr
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This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature - Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and …
Daughter of the Shtetl
The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Av Doba-Mera Medvedeva, Michael Beizer
Inbunden, 2019
1336 kr
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Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past …
Daughter of the Shtetl
The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Av Doba-Mera Medvedeva, Michael Beizer
Häftad, 2019
292 kr
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Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past …
Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?
A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917
Inbunden, 2016
1357 kr
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This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish …
Thanksgiving All Year Round
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2016
1080 kr
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This book first delves into the author’s ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish …
Thanksgiving All Year Round
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
260 kr
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Thanksgiving All Year Round describes Gavriel Shapiro's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.This book first delves into Shapiro's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history and offers an individual …
Nostalgia for a Foreign Land
Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel
Inbunden, 2016
1196 kr
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This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and …
Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness
The Post-Holocaust Plea for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister
Inbunden, 2017
1158 kr
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In the summer of 1947, three years before his death in a labor camp hospital, one of the most significant Soviet Yiddish writers Der Nister (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) made a trip from Moscow to Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East. He traveled there on a special …
Russian-Jewish Tradition
Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries
Inbunden, 2017
1007 kr
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This book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic cultural creations Russia’s Jews employed the general themes of artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to fit their own needs. The result was a hybrid, …
Brodsky Among Us
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2017
1104 kr
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A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.
Brodsky Among Us
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
255 kr
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A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.
Gendered Violence
Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921
Inbunden, 2018
1286 kr
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This is the first book to recognize and address the problem of mass rape of Jewish women during the pogroms in Ukraine during the Civil War (1917-1921). The genocidal violence during the pogroms became a precursor to the Holocaust, and until recently the latter overshadowed the significance of the …
River of Time
Time-Space, History, and Language in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Russian and Anglo-American Poetry
Inbunden, 2017
1302 kr
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This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics. The …
Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?
A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917
Häftad, 2017
416 kr
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This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish …
With or Without You
The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Russia
Häftad, 2017
188 kr
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In his captivating new book, based on new evidence and a series of interviews, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia’s dwindling yet still vibrant and influential Jewish community. This is simultaneously an in-depth exploration of the texture of Jewish …
Double Burden, a Double Cross”
Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer
Inbunden, 2017
1104 kr
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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 …
Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature
An Anthology
Häftad, 2018
556 kr
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Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russia’s Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history. A living …
Gendered Violence
Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921
Häftad, 2018
422 kr
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This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic. Between 1917 and 1921, rape was used as a strategic weapon in the genocidal anti-Jewish violence—the pogroms—that erupted in Ukraine. During this period, at least 100,000 Jews died and unknown numbers of Jewish women were raped. …
Where There Is Danger
Inbunden, 2019
1365 kr
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2015 winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud. Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with …
Where There Is Danger
Häftad, 2019
226 kr
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Winner of the 2015 Prix Valery LarbaudWriter, professor, translator and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languages—her native Russian and her adopted French. She recounts the coexistence of these two languages, as well as two bodies and two worlds, in an autobiographical text packed with …
“If we had wings we would fly to you”
A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941–42
Inbunden, 2020
1628 kr
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This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region …
“If we had wings we would fly to you”
A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941–42
Häftad, 2020
341 kr
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This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region …
Transatlantic Russian Jewishness
Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2020
1108 kr
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the hugely successful daily Forverts (Forward), established in New York in April 1897. Its editorial columns …
Man Who Brought Brodsky into English
Conversations with George L. Kline
Inbunden, 2021
1104 kr
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Brodsky’s poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George L. Kline. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's …
Man Who Brought Brodsky into English
Conversations with George L. Kline
Häftad, 2021
212 kr
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“A brilliant story of the three-decade-long collaboration of Joseph Brodsky and his loyal translator. Cynthia Haven draws a vivid portrait of George Kline—an intellectual, a friend, a war hero. These never-before-told stories, collected and painstakingly edited by Haven, fill in the glaring lacunae …
Voice of Silence
The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR
Av Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky
Häftad, 2021
246 kr
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While trying to revive Jewish national life by teaching Hebrew and Judaism in the Soviet Union, Ephraim Kholmyansky is arrested and threatened with long years of imprisonment and exile. In response, he declares a hunger strike. Supporters throughout the world rally to pressure the Soviet government …
Amateur Performance
(Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
Av Lev Levanda, Brian Horowitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1443 kr
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Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda …
Amateur Performance
(Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
Av Lev Levanda, Brian Horowitz m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
245 kr
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Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda …
Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature
Av Roman Katsman, Maxim D. Shrayer
Inbunden, 2023
689 kr
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This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a …
