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An Amateur Performance : (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) / Lev Levanda; ed. by Brian Horowitz, Conor Daly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their LegacyPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]Copyright date: 2022Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9798887190181
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.73/3 23/eng/20220815
LOC classification:
  • PG3467.L435 A83 2022
  • PG3467.L435 A83 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) -- On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies -- Index
Summary: Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s) -- On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies -- Index

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Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)

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