Music From a Speeding Train - Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

Zusatztext "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." Informationen zum Autor 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: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique (Stanford, 1992). Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Murav Harriet, Harriet Murav
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2011
• EAN: 9780804774437
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7443-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies