Description - An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature by Maxim D. Shrayer
This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It includes writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles from the Romantic to the Postmodern. The authors include figures whose work is not well known in English, as well as more widely known writers. The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the author's background, but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal, cultural, and historical context in which the writer worked, and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context. This two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century, and includes the editor's introduction to the Jewish-Russian literary canon.
The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin, and each volume includes a corresponding outline of Jewish-Russian history, as well as bibliographies of historical and literary sources.
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