The anti-imperial choice : the making of the Ukrainian Jew / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, Ĭokhanan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--Ukraine--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jews in literature.

Jewish authors--Ukraine.

Jewish authors.

Jews--Ukraine--History--19th century.

Jews.

Ukraine--In literature.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 344 p., [16] p. of plates) ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880's to the 1990's. Unlike their East European contemporaries who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial, these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fueled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause. Providing extensive historical background, biographical detail, and analysis of each writer's poetry and prose, Petrovsky-Shtern shows how a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way, he challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian-Jewish relations.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Politics of Names and Places: A Note on Transliteration

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Prayer for Ukraine: The Improbable Identity of Hryts'ko Kernerenko

Chapter 2. Between Two Fires: The National-Communist Utopia of Ivan Kulyk

Chapter 3. Writing the Body: The Passion and Freedom of Raisa Troianker

Chapter 4. Being for the Victims: Leonid Pervomais'kyi's Ethical Responses to Violence

Chapter 5. A Messiah from Czernowitz: The Language and Faith of Moisei Fishbein

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-35262-8

0-300-15607-3

9786612352621

1-282-08969-2

9786612089695

OCLC:

815775511