TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smola,Klavdia
TI  - Reinventing Tradition: Russian-Jewish Literature between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction 
T2  - Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
SN  - 9798887191911
U1  - 891.709/8924 23/eng/20230321
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature of Aliyah, Exodus, Soviet Jews, reinvention of tradition, Russian-Jewish literature, late Soviet underground, post-memory, Yiddish literature, post-Soviet Jewish literature
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1.Introduction --; 2. Research Approaches --; 3.Russian Jewish Literature as a Bicultural Phenomenon --; 4.Jewish Dissent of the Late Soviet Era: Underground, Exodus, Literature --; 5. Prose of Exodus --; 6. Axes of Nonconformist Jewish Literature --; 7. Negated Dichotomies: The Failed Utopia of Aliyah --; 8. Time and Space Structures in Nonconformist Jewish Literature --; 9. Reinvention of Yiddish Storytelling --; 10. Aftermath and Impact of Jewish Counter-Culture --; 11. Russian Jewish Literature after Communism --; 12. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Names; restricted access
N2  - How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture.Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887191911
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887191911
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887191911/original
ER  -