9780295977898 - Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) by Zipperstein, Steven J. (5 results)
Language: English
Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1999
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 139 pp., notes, bibliography, index This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including n…ovels, plays, and archival material-Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures.Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah."This splendid book consists of a sustained, and self-consciously personal, reflection on the themes of memory, nostalgia, and forgetting as they relate to narratives of Jewish life in Russia that have been produced both here and in Europe since the era of the great migrations."-Hillel J. Kieval, Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, unmarked copy. LS.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's…name - GOOD Standard-sized.
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