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Lev Levanda, Conor Daly, Brian Horowitz
An Amateur Performance - (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
English · Hardback
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Russia's best Jewish writer in the nineteenth-century, Lev Levanda (1835-1888), is still barely known in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is one of his major novels in his entirety, An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. This work from 1882 describes the rush by Jews to the government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface, by Professor William Craft Brumfield
Introduction
1. An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
2. On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies, by Brian Horowitz
Photographs
1. Lev Levanda in his youth. From the New York Public Library Collections.
2. Lev Levanda in middle age. From the New York Public Library Collections.
3. Invitation to the funeral service for Lev Levanda. From the New York Public Library Collections.
4. Brian Horowitz. Photograph courtesy of Brian Horowitz.
5. Hugh McLean. Photography courtesy of the Slavic Department at UC Berkeley.
6. William Brumfield at Dwinelle Plaza, June 1966. In background: Wheeler Hall and Campanile. Photograph courtesy of William Brumfield Collections.
7. Sproul Plaza meeting, fall 1967. In background: Sproul Hall. Photograph: William Brumfield. Courtesy of William Brumfield Collections.
About the author
Lev Levanda was born in Minsk. He studied in a local Jewish school and a rabbinical school in Vilna, after which he took a teaching job in Minsk, where he also assisted with editing state textbooks for Jewish children. He began to write articles and fiction in the early 1860s for various Jewish publications in Odessa, St. Petersburg, and Vilna. While he was an assimilationist rather than traditionalist at the beginning of his career, he later became a proponent of Jewish self-defense during pogroms, critic of extreme assimilation, and spokesperson for early Zionism. Levanda’s best known work is the novel Seething Times (1873), which depicts the Jewish response to the Polish uprising of 1863.
Product details
| Authors | Lev Levanda |
| Assisted by | Conor Daly (Editor), Brian Horowitz (Editor), William Craft Brumfield (Foreword), Hugh Mclean (Translation) |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Released | 27.12.2022 |
| EAN | 9798887190174 |
| ISBN | 979-8-88719-017-4 |
| No. of pages | 120 |
| Illustrations | schwarz-weiss Illustrationen |
| Series |
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy |
| Subjects |
Fiction
> Suspense
> Historical crime novels
Russia, Social & cultural history, Fiction in translation, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary |
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