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  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

    Edited by Sasha Senderovich, Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union.A death camp survivor asks a local woman to write down in Russian his story, which he conveys in Yiddish. The Jewish population of Kyiv makes a pilgrimage to the site of a massacre on its anniversary. A single teacup becomes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    A contemporary evaluation of Bergelson and his works, examining Yiddish literature, Jewish culture, and modernism.David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige, and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • As the Dust of the Earth

    The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Music from a Speeding Train

    Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Russia's Legal Fictions

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    A Case of Russian Literature

    by Leonid Livak ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Hitler's Youth - An Analysis of Mein Kampf

    An Analysis of Mein Kampf, #1

    by Isuru Abeysinghe ...
    Series Book 1 - An Analysis of Mein Kampf
    Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf, the official doctrine of the NAZI regime during WWII, is not a book that many would consider to read. Modern society is generally very well acquainted with Hitler and the ultimate outcome of his philosophical stances and will automatically denounce such notions based on a purely humanitarian and moral standpoint. The book remains illegal in many parts of ... Read more

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  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

    On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

    Edited by Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich ...
    An examination of the association between the influential and controversial philosopher's ideas and fascistic beliefs.Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can such a thinker have in common with the fascistic manipulation of the masses for ... Read more

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  • Ernst Bloch

    by Vincent Geoghegan ...
    Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest of writers to read his full contribution has not been widely acknowledged. Block developed a complex conceptual framework, and presented this ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust as Culture

    by Imre Kertész ...
    Translated by Thomas Cooper ...
    Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this relationship between the personal and the historical.In The Holocaust as Culture,Kertész recalls his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD