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Rewriting Russia
Barbara J. Henry
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Description for Rewriting Russia
Paperback. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground for ideologies and artistic credos. Gordin, like his audience, was a Russian émigré. His most successful and scandalous dramas--The Jewish King Lear, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Khasye the Orphan--were based on works by Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, and reflected a profoundly Jewish means of using literature to salvage a lost land.
Gordin's life and his plays held out the tantalizing possibility that by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Modern Language Initiative Books
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295991337
SKU
V9780295991337
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About Barbara J. Henry
Barbara J. Henry is associate professor of Russian literature and Jewish studies at the University of Washington.
Reviews for Rewriting Russia
"Henry has done a service in re-kindling the conversation regarding this iconoclast by constructing a new image of Gordin based on exhaustive archival work. . . . She should be commended for breaking new ground on such a significant figure, and, hopefully, providing access for future work from a range of disciplines."
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