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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Khazan, Vladimir

Titel

A Double Burden, a Double Cross" : Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer

Ist Teil von

• Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2017]

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• If a history of Russian-Jewish literature in the twentieth century (or, at least, a history of its authors and texts) were ever to be written, it would reveal a number of puzzling lacunae. One such lacuna is Andrei Sobol, a truly significant writer who, paradoxically, has not received due scholarly attention. This can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Sobol's name goes virtually unmentioned in some of the most representative and authoritative studies dealing with the Russian-Jewish literary discourse. It is this scholarly gap that has prompted Vladimir Khazan to write this volume, a comprehensive and exhaustive account of Sobol's public, literary, and artistic activities as a purely Russian-Jewish phenomenon. Khazan analyzes his biographical subject within the framework of cultural studies