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Identity Theft - The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner (Hardcover)
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Identity Theft - The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner (Hardcover)
Series: Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
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Identity Theft focuses on the life and writing of Avraam Uri
Kovner. As one of the fiery Jewish nihilists of his generation,
variously a critic, author, and bank embezzler, Kovner embodies the
problem of identity as a series of translations across cultural
boundaries. Kovner, who initiated modern Hebrew criticism,
published two novels in Russian as well as a weekly column in a
widely read Russian newspaper. He forged a bank check and became
notorious in the Russian press as an example of the danger
integration of the Jews represented to Russian society. From
prison, and later in exile, Kovner defended the Jews in a series of
letters to Fedor Dostoevsky and Vasilii Rozanov, both of whom
vilified Jews in their writings. Ostracized by both the Jewish and
Russian communities, he mimed and at the same time undermined rigid
stereotypes of Jewish and Russian behavior, pointing out the uneasy
interdependence of the two cultures he inhabited.
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