Reinventing Tradition : : Russian-Jewish Literature between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction / / Klavdia Smola.

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• VerfasserIn: Smola, Klavdia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)

How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture.Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Research Approaches -- 3.Russian Jewish Literature as a Bicultural Phenomenon -- 4.Jewish Dissent of the Late Soviet Era: Underground, Exodus, Literature -- 5. Prose of Exodus -- 6. Axes of Nonconformist Jewish Literature -- 7. Negated Dichotomies: The Failed Utopia of Aliyah -- 8. Time and Space Structures in Nonconformist Jewish Literature -- 9. Reinvention of Yiddish Storytelling -- 10. Aftermath and Impact of Jewish Counter-Culture -- 11. Russian Jewish Literature after Communism -- 12. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names