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A comprehensive and exhaustive account of Andrei Sobol¿s public, literary, and artistic activities as a purely Russian-Jewish phenomenon. Khazan analyzes his biographical subject within the framework of cultural studies.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Part I. “…And, Apparently, a Very Good Jew”: Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Literary Critic and Journalist I.1 Baal-Machshoves and Andrei Sobol: Two Views on the Purpose and Objectives of Russian-Jewish Literature I.2 The Context and Subtext of Sobol’s Open Letter to D. Merezhkovsky I.3 A Battle that Never Happened (Sobol’s Unpublished Open Letter to Ivan. Bunin) PART II. Andrei Sobol and Evreiskii Mir PART III. Overcoming the Myth: Jewish Themes, Motifs, and Images in Sobol’s Works III.1. Between Literature and Politics: Sobol’s Novel Pyl’ III. 2. Jewish Themes, Motifs, and Images in Sobol’s Short Stories III. 3. The Fate of Sobol’s Book Evrei PART IV. Sobol’s Translation of Wandering Stars PART V. Andrei Sobol and the Jewish Theater Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
Vladimir Khazan teaches in the Department of Russian, German and Eastern European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Summary
If a history of Russian-Jewish literature in the twentieth century were ever to be written, it would reveal a number of puzzling gaps. One is Andrei Sobol, a truly significant writer who has not received due scholarly attention. It is this scholarly gap that has led Vladimir Khazan to write this volume, a comprehensive and exhaustive account of Sobol's public, literary, and artistic activities.
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"Vladimir Khazan’s in-depth study of the life and work of Andrei Sobol sheds new light on the complexity of Russian-Jewish cultural relationship. The book will be invaluable to both the scholarly community and the interested non-specialist, as it does an outstanding job in lifting the veil on one of the most mysterious figures in the history of the Russian literature during the turbulent revolutionary era."
