16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
9:55 a.m.
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to remind you of the opening session of the 2007-08 Russian
and East European Jewish Studies Seminar at the Davis Center on
Wednesday, October 17, at 4:15-6:00, in CGIS Room S354. *Maxim Shrayer*,
Professor of Russian and English at Boston College and a long-time
Associate of the Davis Center, will be commenting on his recently
published /Anthology of Jewish Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual
Identity in Prose and Poetry /(M. E. Sharpe, 2007)/. /*Julie Buckler,
*Harvard Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Davis Center
Faculty Associate, will comment on trends in Russian literary studies
that include Jewish studies.
A wine and cheese reception will follow the seminar. Steve Zipperstein
and I look forward to seeing you there.
Regards,
Lis Tarlow
P.S. Below please find the publisher's announcement of the Shrayer
anthology.
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*Wednesday, October 17*
"In Search of Jewish-Russian Literature"
Maxim Shrayer, Professor of Russian and English, Boston College;
Associate, Davis Center; Editor, /An Anthology of Jewish-Russian
Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry /(M.E.
Sharpe, 2007)
Discussant: Julie Buckler, Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
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*An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual
Identity in Prose and Poetry (Two-volume set)*
Edited by: Maxim D. Shrayer
*Description:* For over two hundred years, a distinctive Jewish-Russian
culture has been part of the ferment and flourishing of world culture.
Edited by a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature, this
magnificent anthology introduces readers for the first time to the full
range of the Jewish-Russian literary canon, with stories and excerpts
from novels, essays, memoirs, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers
who worked in the Russian language, both in Russia and in the great
emigrations. The selections were chosen both for their literary quality
and because they illuminate questions of Jewish history, status, and
identity. Each author is extensively profiled.
With a comprehensive general introduction, chronological introductions,
and headnotes by the editor, historical surveys by John D. Klier of
University College, London, and extensive bibliographies, this anthology
provides an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture.
*Selected Contents:*
*VOLUME 1: 1801-1953*
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, Dates, and Notes
Note on How to Use This Anthology
Editor's General Introduction: Toward a Canon of Jewish-Russian
Literature, /Maxim D. Shrayer/
Jewish-Russian Literature: A Selected Bibliography
*The Beginning*
Leyba Nevakhovich (1776-1831)
*Gaining a Voice: 1840-1881*
Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889)
Afanasy Fet (1820-1890)
Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896)
Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869)
Lev Levanda (1835-1888)
Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885)
*First Flowering: 1881-1902*
Rashel Khin (1861-1928)
Semyon Nadson (1862-1887)
Nikolay Minsky (1855-1937)
Simon Frug (1860-1916)
Ben-Ami (1854-1932)
Avraam-Uria Kovner (1842-1909)
*On the Eve: 1902-1917*
David Aizman (1869-1922)
Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927)
Dmitri Tsenzor (1877-1947)
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
Leyb Jaffe (1878-1948)
Sasha Cherny (1880-1932)
Ossip Dymow (1878-1959)
S. An-sky (1863-1920)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
Rahel (1890-1931)
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
Sofia Parnok (1885-1933)
*Revolution and Betrayal: 1917-1939*
Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918)
Mikhail Gershenzon (1869-1925)
Elisheva (1888-1949)
Valentin Parnakh (1891-1951)
Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968)
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Vladimir Lidin (1894-1979)
Lev Lunts (1901-1924)
Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Andrey Sobol (1888-1926)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
Matvey Royzman (1896-1973)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
Iosif Utkin (1903-1944)
Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969)
Yury Libedinsky (1898-1959)
Vera Inber (1890-1972)
Mark Tarlovsky (1902-1952)
Mikhail Kozakov (1897-1954)
Viktor Fink (1888-1973)
Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972)
Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934)
Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942)
Mark Egart (1901-1956)
Arkady Shteynberg (1907-1984)
*Emigrations: 1917-1967*
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)
Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942)
Dovid Knut (1900-1955)
Don-Aminado (1888-1957)
Raisa Blokh (1899-1943)
Anna Prismanova (1892-1960)
Sofia Dubnova-Erlich (1885-1986)
Sofia Pregel (1894-1972)
Yuly Margolin (1900-1971)
Andrey Sedykh (1902-1994)
*War and Terror: 1939-1953*
Boris Yampolsky (1912-1972)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Vassily Grossman (1905-1964)
Margarita Aliger (1915-1992)
Lev Ozerov (1914-1996)
Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978)
Yury German (1910-1967)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Volume I
Outline of Jewish-Russian History Part I, 1772-1953 / John D. Klier/
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1772-1953: A Selected Bibliography
Index of Translators
Index of Authors
About the Editor
*VOLUME 2: 1953-2001*
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates
Note on How to Use This Anthology
*The Thaw: 1953-1964*
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
Vassily Grossman (1905-1964)
Naum Korzhavin (b. 1925)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Yuly Daniel (1925-1988)
Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962)
*Late Soviet Empire: 1964-1991*
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)
Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999)
Aleksandr Aronov (1934-2001)
Vassily Aksyonov (b.1932)
Aleksandr Galich (1919-1977)
Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982)
Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936)
Evgeny Gabrilovich (1899-1993)
Yulia Neyman (1907-1994)
Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003)
Yury Karabchievsky (1938-1992)
Inna Lisnyanskaya (b. 1928)
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
Iuliu Edlis (b. 1929)
Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998)
Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980)
Yury Trifonov (1925-1981)
Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982)
Grigory Kanovich (b. 1929)
Yuri Levitansky (1922-1996)
Aleksandr Mezhirov (b. 1923)
Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935)
Sara Pogreb (b. 1921)
Izrail Metter (1909-1996)
Mikhail Sinelnikov (b. 1946)
Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005)
Vladimir Britanishsky (b. 1933)
*The Jewish Exodus: 1967-2001*
Lev Mak (b. 1937)
Henri Volohonsky (b. 1936)
Arkady Lvov (b. 1927)
Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999)
David Markish (b. 1938)
Michail Grobman (b. 1939)
Boris Khazanov (b. 1928)
Yuri Kolker (b. 1947)
Felix Roziner (1936-1997)
Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990)
Michael B. Kreps (1940-1994)
Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936)
Ruth Zernova (1919-2004)
David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936)
Igor Mikhalevich-Kaplan (b. 1943)
Marina Temkina (b. 1948)
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002)
Maxim D. Shrayer (b. 1967)
*In Post-Soviet Times: 1991-2001*
Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943)
Anatoly Nayman (b. 1936)
Ian Probstein (b. 1953)
Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947)
Mikhail Zhvanetsky (b. 1934)
Tatyana Voltskaya (b. 1960)
Michail Bezrodnyj (b. 1957)
Eduard Shulman (b. 1936)
Anna Gorenko (1972-1999)
Dina Rubina (b. 1953)
Ilya Kutik (b. 1960)
Yuri Leving (b. 1975)
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Volume 2
Outline of Jewish-Russian History, Part II, 1954-2001 /John D. Klier/
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1954-2001: A Selected Bibliography
Index of Translators
Index of Authors
Index of Names, Works, and Subjects
About the Editor
*Comment(s):* Maxim D. Shrayer's extraordinary presentation of Jewish
writing in Russian, from the beginnings of secular Jewish writing in
Imperial Russia to today's worldwide Jewish-Russian Diaspora, is
sovereign in its selection. ... Every major writer known or considered,
condemned or praised as Jewish is included. The translations are more
than readable: they are literary in the best sense as they present a
portrait of the cultural legacy and conflicted identity of the Jews of
Russia, who ... are remaking the culture and literature of the next wave
of the Jewish Diaspora. A must for every school or Temple, academic or
major public library! -- /Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of
the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University/
Maxim Shrayer's massive two-volume anthology is an impressive
achievement, admirably researched and wide-ranging. ... It will be a
boon to those interested in Russian literature, in Jewish-Russian
culture, and in dual cultural identity. -- /Victor Erlich, Emeritus,
Yale University/
*Review(s):* This two-volume anthology of Jewish Russian literature is
the most significant publication to date to deal with the contributions
of Jewish writers to Russian literature and poetry from the 19th to the
late 20th centuries. And what a massive, imposing work it is! ...
Essential. All readers; all levels. / Choice, Vol.44, No.11 /
...the parts of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature seem as great
as the whole, are greater--they are, and it is, a wonder. / Forward /