Reinventing tradition : Russian-Jewish literature between Soviet underground and post-Soviet deconstruction / Klavdia Smola.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacyPublisher: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2023Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)Content type:- text
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- Wiedererfindung der Tradition. English
- 891.709/8924 23/eng/20230321
- PG2998.J4 S56513 2023
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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