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How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Hardcover)
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How the Soviet Jew Was Made (Hardcover)
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A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature
and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not
just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the
Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917
transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The
Pale of Settlement on the empire's western borderlands, where Jews
had been required to live, was abolished several months before the
Bolsheviks came to power. Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls,
seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others
for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in
the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East,
where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these
Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new,
and the pressure to discard old ways of life. This ambivalence was
embodied in the Soviet Jew-not just a descriptive demographic term
but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and
Russian literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds
characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the
dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. There is
the Siberian settler of Viktor Fink's Jews in the Taiga, the
folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the fragmented, bickering
family of Moyshe Kulbak's The Zemlenyaners, whose insular lives are
disrupted by the march of technological, political, and social
change. There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits, the pogrom
survivor, the emigre who repatriates to the USSR. Senderovich urges
us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority but also a
particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made
emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a
shifting landscape.
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