TY - BOOK AU - Jabotinsky,Vladimir AU - Katz,Michael R. AU - Stanislawski,Michael TI - The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa SN - 9780801471636 AV - PG3470.Z4 P513 2005eb U1 - 891.73/3 PY - 2014///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Jews KW - Ukraine KW - Odesa KW - Fiction KW - Fiction & Short Stories KW - Literary Studies KW - Soviet & East European History KW - FICTION / Jewish KW - bisacsh KW - Milgroms KW - books on jewish russian culture KW - books set in odessa KW - elegaic paean KW - fiction set in odessa KW - fin-de-siècle KW - historical Jewish fiction KW - jewish historical fiction KW - jewish literary fiction KW - jewish literature KW - jewish novel KW - jewish studies KW - literary fiction KW - pyatero translation KW - russian fiction KW - russian jewish literature KW - russian jewish novel KW - soviet russian literature KW - soviet union jewish history KW - world fiction KW - zionist literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Translator’s Preface --; Introduction --; Principal Characters --; Instead of a Preface --; I. Youth --; II. Serezha --; III. In the Literary Circle --; IV. Around Marusya --; V. The World of Business --; VI. Lika --; VII. Marko --; VIII. My Porter --; IX. The Alien --; X. Along Deribasov Street --; XI. A Many-Sided Soul --; XII. The Arsenal on Moldavanka --; XIII. Something Like the Decameron --; XIV. Inserted Chapter, Not Intended for the Reader --; XV. Confession on Langeron --; XVI. Signor and Mademoiselle --; XVII. The Godseeker --; XVIII. Potemkin Day --; XIX. Potemkin Night --; XX. The Wrong Way --; XXI. Broad Jewish Natures --; XXII. One More Confession --; XXIII. Visiting Marusya --; XXIV. Mademoiselle and Signor --; XXV. Gomorrah --; XXVI. Something Bad --; XXVII. The End of Marusya --; XXVIII. The Beginning of Torik --; XXIX. L’envoi --; Selected Bibliography; restricted access N2 - "The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well as the image of our carefree Black Sea capital with acacias growing along its steep banks, are interwoven in my memory with the story of one family in which there were five children: Marusya, Marko, Lika, Serezha, and Torik."—from The Five The Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siècle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movement whose literary talents, until now, have largely gone unrecognized by Western readers. The author deftly paints a picture of Russia's decay and decline—a world permeated with sexuality, mystery, and intrigue. Michael R. Katz has crafted the first English-language translation of this important novel, which was written in Russian in 1935 and published a year later in Paris under the title Pyatero.The book is Jabotinsky's elegaic paean to the Odessa of his youth, a place that no longer exists. It tells the story of an upper-middle-class Jewish family, the Milgroms, at the turn of the century. It follows five siblings as they change, mature, and come to accept their places in a rapidly evolving world. With flashes of humor, Jabotinsky captures the ferment of the time as reflected in political, social, artistic, and spiritual developments. He depicts with nostalgia the excitement of life in old Odessa and comments poignantly on the failure of the dream of Jewish assimilation within the Russian empire UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471636 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801471636 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801471636/original ER -