Music from a Speeding Train - (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Harriet Murav (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Music from a Speeding Train</i> challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Music from a Speeding Train</i> challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>By carefully reading something close to the entirety of the Russian-Jewish and Yiddish literature published in the last century and considering it on its own terms, Murav has changed the ways in which literary scholars and historians will think about the Soviet Jewish experience.--Gabriella Safran "<i>Slavic Review</i>"<br><br>I recommend this book not only to all readers of Jewish, Yiddish, and Russian-Jewish literature, but to all scholars and students of Soviet and post-Soviet literature, whether written by Jews or not. Murav convinces us solidly that Jewish culture was firmly integrated into Soviet culture throughout and beyond the latter's historical purview, and we must look at both together in order to fully understand either.--Judith Deutsch Kornblatt "<i>Slavic and East European Journal</i>"<br><br>Murav has written an unusually rich and engaging book, which will be a must for experts on twentieth-century literatures--Jewish, Soviet, and European. Partially, its success is secured by the extraordinary quality of the forgotten texts that she presents to the reader in her lucid, though necessarily abridged, renderings . . . Murav's rendering of this vanished melody [from a speeding train] is remarkably clear.--Alexander Etkind "<i>The Russian Review</i>"<br><br>This cogent book demonstrates viability and resilience of Jewish literature in Russia from the late 19th century to the current day. This is a truly admirable book, marked by keen understanding, insight, and particular sympathy, if not love, for the Jewish people. . . Highly recommended.--V. D. Barooshian "<i>Choice</i>"<br><br>This pioneering book offers an illuminating interpretation of Soviet Jewish culture, treating this complex phenomenon from a refreshingly new literary perspective. It is the first literary study to cover the entire Soviet period and deal equally expertly with Yiddish and Russian texts.--Mikhail Krutikov "University of Michigan"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Harriet Murav is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of <i>Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner</i> (Stanford, 2003) and <i>Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique</i> (Stanford, 1992).
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