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This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the "big wave" of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson.
List of contents
Preface Dina Rubina: A Portrait of the Artist as a Messiah and a Pirate Introduction Carnival and Sincerity Migration and Neoindigeneity Messiahs, Mothers, and Orphans Victims and Heroes From Trauma to the Real Origins and Copies Fugitives, Nomads, and Pirates The Metaphysical Leap Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: Neoeclecticism and Beyond A Noble Man of Our Times The Jerusalem Trilogy of Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis
Ierusalimsky dvorianin (A noble man of Jerusalem, 1997): An Abortive Gesture of Violence
I/e_rus.olim (2004): History, Sacrifice, and Network
¿¿ (Preemptive Revenge, 2006): The Other¿s Heroism Mikhail Yudson¿s
Lestnitsa na shkaf (The ladder to the cabinet): The New Language of Metaphysics A Ladder to the Neoindigeneity Afterword Works Cited
About the author
Roman Katsman is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of six books and numerous articles on Hebrew and Russian literatures, and Jewish-Russian literature and thought. His recent interests are concerned with laughter in S.Y. Agnon's works and the contemporary Russian intellectual literature.
Summary
Focuses on several Russian authors among many who emigrated to Israel with the “big wave” of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis.
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With great knowledge of cultural studies and philosophy and with an impressive interpretive depth, Katsman … reflects on the works themselves. He manages to combine an oeuvre’s central semantic aspects in a comprehensive philosophical interpretation.
