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Subject(s)

• Jewish women—Soviet Union—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Judaism and literature—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Russian literature—Jewish authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Russian literature—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Russian literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author's literary output, and an assessment of each author's often conflicted view of her ""feminine self"" and of her ""Jewish self"". At a time when the large Jewish population which lived within the Soviet Union was threatened under Stalin's prosecutions the book provides highly-informative insi

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction : Jewish women writers in the Soviet Union and the present study; 1. Literature and the political regime in Russia; 2. Alexandra Brushtein (1884-1968): The tears behind the smiles; 3. Elizaveta Polonskaia (1890-1969): A concealed storm of emotion; 4. Raisa Bloch (1899-1943): A genius unaware of her talent; 5. Hanna Levina (1900-1969): A Jewish communist fighter; 6. Ol'ga Ziv (1904-1963): An unknown Jewish author; 7. Yulia Neiman (1907-1994): Brilliant philosopher and poetess

ISBN

• 9780208805060
• 1-283-46244-3
• 9786613462442
• 0-203-80506-2
• 1-136-64547-0

OCLC

• 798532162
• 782918213

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203805060

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