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

• VerfasserIn: Khazan, Vladimir,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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 attention. This can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Sobol's name goes virtually unmentioned in some of the most representative and authoritative studies dealing with the Russian-Jewish literary discourse. It is this scholarly gap that has prompted Vladimir Khazan to write this volume, a comprehensive and exhaustive account of Sobol's public, literary, and artistic activities as a purely Russian-Jewish phenomenon. Khazan analyzes his biographical subject within the framework of cultural studies.

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-- I.2 The Context and Subtext of Sobol's Open Letter to D. Merezhkovsky -- I.3 A Battle that Never Happened (Sobol's Unpublished Open Letter to Ivan Bunin) -- Part II.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