Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia by Harr

Description: Music from a Speeding Train by Harriet Murav Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe-one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture. The book emphasizes the Soviet Jewish response to World War II and the Nazi destruction of the Jews, disputing the claim that Jews in Soviet Russia did not and could not react to the killings of Jews. It reveals a largely unknown body of Jewish literature beginning as early as 1942 that responds to the mass killings. By exploring works through the early twenty-first century, the book reveals a complex, emotionally rich, and intensely vibrant Soviet Jewish culture that persisted beyond Stalinist oppression. Author Biography Harriet Murav is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner (Stanford, 2003) and Holy Foolishness: Dostoevskys Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique (Stanford, 1992). Review "I recommend this book not only to all readers of Jewish, Yiddish, and Russian-Jewish literature, but to all scholars and students of Soviet and post-Soviet literature, whether written by Jews or not. Murav convinces us solidly that Jewish culture was firmly integrated into Soviet culture throughout and beyond the latters historical purview, and we must look at both together in order to fully understand either." - Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Slavic and East European Journal "This cogent book demonstrates viability and resilience of Jewish literature in Russia from the late 19th century to the current day. This is a truly admirable book, marked by keen understanding, insight, and particular sympathy, if not love, for the Jewish people... Highly recommended." - V. D. Barooshian, Choice "Murav has written an unusually rich and engaging book, which will be a must for experts on twentieth-century literatures - Jewish, Soviet, and European. Partially, its success is secured by the extraordinary quality of the forgotten texts that she presents to the reader in her lucid, though necessarily abridged, renderings ... Muravs rendering of this vanished melody [from a speeding train] is remarkably clear." - Alexander Etkind, The Russian Review "By carefully reading something close to the entirety of the Russian-Jewish and Yiddish literature published in the last century and considering it on its own terms, Murav has changed the ways in which literary scholars and historians will think about the Soviet Jewish experience." - Gabriella Safran, Slavic Review "This pioneering book offers an illuminating interpretation of Soviet Jewish culture, treating this complex phenomenon from a refreshingly new literary perspective. It is the first literary study to cover the entire Soviet period and deal equally expertly with Yiddish and Russian texts." - Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan Long Description Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe--one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture. The book emphasizes the Soviet Jewish response to World War II and the Nazi destruction of the Jews, disputing the claim that Jews in Soviet Russia did not and could not react to the killings of Jews. It reveals a largely unknown body of Jewish literature beginning as early as 1942 that responds to the mass killings. By exploring works through the early twenty-first century, the book reveals a complex, emotionally rich, and intensely vibrant Soviet Jewish culture that persisted beyond Stalinist oppression. Review Quote "This pioneering book offers an illuminating interpretation of Soviet Jewish culture, treating this complex phenomenon from a refreshingly new literary perspective. It is the first literary study to cover the entire Soviet period and deal equally expertly with Yiddish and Russian texts." Details ISBN0804774439 Author Harriet Murav Short Title MUSIC FROM A SPEEDING TRAIN Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804774439 ISBN-13 9780804774437 Media Book Format Hardcover Pages 416 Year 2011 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Residence CA, US Birth 1955 Publication Date 2011-08-15 Subtitle Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia UK Release Date 2011-08-15 AU Release Date 2011-08-15 NZ Release Date 2011-08-15 US Release Date 2011-08-15 Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Alternative 9780804779043 DEWEY 891.709892400904 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 2 illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159573482;

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