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    Babel' in Context 

    Sicher, Efraim (2012-10-01)
    Isaak Babel (1894–1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who ...
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    Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter 

    Smith, Oliver (2010-11-01)
    While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a ...
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    Freedom from Violence and Lies 

    Karlinsky, Simon (2013-06-01)
    Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924–2009), a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music who taught in the University ...
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    The Englishman from Lebedian' 

    Curtis, J.A.E. (2013-10-01)
    After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly ...
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    Close Encounters 

    Jackson, Robert Louis (2013-03-01)
    Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. ...
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    All the Same The Words Don't Go Away 

    Emerson, Caryl (2011-11-01)
    Twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. First is the creative potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres of media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, ...
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    A Companion to Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" 

    Seifrid, Thomas (2009-04-01)
    Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant ...
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    Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought 

    Volková, Bronislava (2021)
    Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth ...
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    Jacob's Ladder 

    Aptekman, Marina (2011-06-01)
    Jacob’s Ladder discusses the reflection of kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature and provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the perception of Kabbalah in Russian consciousness. Aptekman investigates the ...
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    Soviet Jews in World War II 

    Estraikh, Gennady; Murav, Harriet (2014-04-15)
    This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War—as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945, was known in the Soviet ...
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    Gendered Violence 

    Astashkevich, Irina (2018-01-31)
    This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic—the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period ...
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    Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes 

    Masing-Delic, Irene (2009-03-01)
    This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” ...
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    Cultures in Collision and Conversation 

    Berger, David (2011-04-01)
    In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval ...
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    Turn It and Turn It Again 

    Fendrick, Susan P.; Levisohn, Jon A. (2013-04-02)
    The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. ...
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    Creating the Empress 

    Proskurina, Vera (2011-01-01)
    "In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works ...
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    Before They Were Titans 

    Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh (2015-04-15)
    Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also ...
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    In Quest of Tolstoy 

    McLean, Hugh (2008-03-01)
    Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral ...
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    The Muselmann at the Water Cooler 

    Pfefferkorn, Eli (2011-05-01)
    "A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds ...
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    Dreams of Nationhood 

    Srebrnik, Henry Felix (2010-08-01)
    The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the ...
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    Russians Abroad 

    Slobin, Greta (2013-06-01)
    "This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris ...
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