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Intro
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Editors
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Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates
Note on How to Use This Anthology
General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature Maxim D. Shrayer
Early Voices: 1800s-1850s
Editor's Introduction
Leyba Nevakhovich (1776-1831)
From Lament of the Daughter of Judah (1803)
Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889)
"The People" (1840)
Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896)
From An Answer to the Slav (1849
pub. 1911)
Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869)
From The Penal Recruit (1859)
Seething Times: 1860s-1880s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Levanda (1835-1888)
From Seething Times (1860s
pub. 1871-73)
Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885)
"Childhood Sufferings" from Notes of a Jew (1863
pub. 1871-73)
Rashel Khin (1861-1928)
From The Misfit (1881)
Semyon Nadson (1862-1887)
From "The Woman" (1883)
"I grew up shunning you, O most degraded nation . . ." (1885)
On the Eve: 1890s-1910s
Editor's Introduction
Ben-Ami (1854-1932)
Preface to Collected Stories and Sketches (1898)
David Aizman (1869-1922)
"The Countrymen" (1902)
Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927)
From The Jews (1903)
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
"In Memory of Herzl" (1904)
Sasha Cherny (1880-1932)
"The Jewish Question" (1909)
"Judeophobes" (1909)
S. An-sky (1863-1920)
"The Book" (1910)
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
"Palestine" (1916)
Sofia Parnok (1885-1933)
"My anguish does the Lord not heed . . ." (1913-22)
"Hagar" (1913-22)
"Not for safekeeping for awhile . . ." (1913-22)
Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918)
"A Jewish Wedding" (1916)
"Regimental Inspection" (1917)
Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Lunts (1901-1924)
"Native Land" (1922).
Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989)
"Shields (and Candles)" (1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
"Not my mother but a Tula peasant woman . . ." (1917
1922)
"In Moscow I was born. I never . . ." (1923)
Andrey Sobol (1888-1926)
"The Count" (1922-23)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
From The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples (1922)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
From Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1923)
Matvey Royzman (1896-1973)
"Kol Nidrei" (1923)
Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)
"The Assassination of Uritsky" (1923)
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
"Judaic Chaos" from Noise of Time (1925)
"One Alexander Herzovich . . ." (1931)
"Say, desert geometer, shaper . . ." (1933)
Dovid Knut (1900-1955)
"I, Dovid-Ari ben Meir…" (1925)
"A Kishinev Burial" (1929)
"The Land of Israel" (1938)
Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942)
"Shield of David, crescent or ikon . . ." (1923)
"Where's Home?" (1925)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
"The Rabbi's Son" (1924)
"Awakening" (1931)
Vera Inber (1890-1972)
"The Nightingale and the Rose" (1925)
Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969)
"Encounter" (1927)
Viktor Fink (1888-1973)
From Jews on the Land (1929)
"The Preachers"
"The New Culture"
Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972)
"R" (1929)
Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934)
"Origin"(1930)
From February (1934)
Mark Egart (1901-1956)
From The Scorched Land (1932)
Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942)
"The Prodigal Son Returns Home" (1930) by Ilf
From The Little Golden Calf (1931) by Ilf and Petrov
Raisa Blokh (1899-1943)
"A snatch of speech came floating on the air . . ." (1932)
"Remember, father would stand . . ." (1933)
War and Shoah: 1940s
Editor's Introduction
Boris Yampolsky (1921-1972)
"Mr. Dykhes and Others" from Country Fair (ca. 1940).
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
"To the Jews" (1941)
"Six Poems" (The January 1945 Novy mir cycle)
Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968)
"I Saw It" (1942)
"Kerch" (1942)
Sofia Dubnova-Erlich (1885-1986)
"Shtetl" (1943)
"Scorched Hearth" (1944)
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
"The Hell of Treblinka" (1944)
Lev Ozerov (1914-1996)
"Babi Yar" (1944-45
pub. 1946)
Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978)
"Death Camp" (1945)
Yury German (1910-1967)
From Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Corps (1949)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
"In the Lowlands" (1944)
"Odessa" (1944)
From Doctor Zhivago (1946-[55]
pub. 1957)
The Thaw: 1950s-1960s
Editor's Introduction
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
"These Abrám, Isák and Yákov . . ." (1953
pub. 1989)
"Of the Jews" (1952-56
pub. 1961)
"Oh, but we Jews had all the luck …" (before 1955)
"Horses in the Ocean" (1956)
"Prodigal Son" (1956)
"Puny Jewish children . . ." (1957-58
pub. 1989)
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
From Life and Fate (1960
pub. 1980)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
"Jewish graveyard near Leningrad . . ." (1958
pub. 1965)
"I'm not asking death for immortality . . ." (ca. 1961
pub. 1992)
Vladimir Britanishsky (1933-2015)
"A German Girl" (1957-58
pub. 1993)
Yuly Daniel (1925-1988)
From This Is Moscow Speaking (1961)
Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962)
"Enemies" (1962)
Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982)
"In the country that has nearly forgotten . . ." (1939
pub. 1990s)
"Who are you, repatriated widows? . . ." (ca. 1943
pub. 1990s)
"Girls with golden eyes . . ." (1960
pub. 1990s)
"You're mistaken . . ." (1961
pub. 1990s)
"It's the end of our nation . . ." (1962
pub. 1990s)
"My Slavic language is Russian . . ." (1963
pub. 1990s)
"I'm Moyshe from Berdichev . . ." (1963
pub. 1990s).
"Eve, a civilized Jewess . . ." (1964
pub. 1990s)
"Expressionism-Zionism . . ." (1965)
"Blessed be the ill fate . . ." (1967)
"Gate slamming, shelter closing . . ." (1967)
"There are antisemites, and antisemites . . ." (1974)
"Some say: in Solzhenitsyn's time . . ." (1974)
Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s
Editor's Introduction
Vassily Aksyonov (1932-2009)
"Victory: A Story with Exaggerations" (1965)
Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936)
"When that teacher in Poland, so as not . . ." (1966)
"Letters" (1966)
Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999)
"In Memory of My Father" (1962
pub. 1999)
"Psalm 3" (1965-66
pub. 1979)
"Psalm 116 (117)" (1965-66
pub. 1979)
"Psalm 132 (133)" (1965-66
pub. 1988)
"Psalm 136 (137)" (1965-66
pub. 1993)
"Psalm 150" (1965-66
pub. 1993)
"A Pole Rode" (1985
pub. 1992)
Aleksandr Aronov (1934-2001)
"Ghetto. 1943" (1960s
pub. 1989)
"That raving blatherskite . . ." (1960s
pub. 1993)
Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003)
"Khaim" (1973
pub. 1979)
Yury Karabchievsky (1938-1992)
From The Life of Alexander Zilber (1974-75)
Inna Lisnyanskaya (1928-2014)
"My father, a military doctor . . ." (1975
pub. 1980)
"An Incident" (1981
pub. 1983)
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
"Let's cross out the Pale . . ." (1970s
pub. 1985)
"I love the antisemites . . ." (before 1977
pub. 1988)
"The rabbis came down to the valley . . ." (before 1977
pub. 1989)
Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998)
From Heavy Sand (1975-77
pub. 1978)
Yury Trifonov (1925-1981)
"A Visit with Marc Chagall" (1980) from The Overturned House
Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980)
From "Only My Heart Was Broken . . ." (1980)
Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935)
"For the Last Time" (1987)
Sara Pogreb (b. 1921)
"I'm going to see my grandparents. The cart . . ." (1986).
"I'm bidding farewell to the slush . . ." (1989)
Israel Metter (1909-1996)
Pedigree (1980s)
Aleksandr Mezhirov (1923-2009)
From Blizzard (1986-2000)
Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005)
Journey to Kashgar (1973-89)
Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947)
From The Confession of a Jew (1993)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943)
"Genele the Purse Lady" (1993)
The Jewish Exodus: 1970s-1990s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Mak (b. 1939)
"A Farewell to Russia" (1974
pub. 1976)
"August in Odessa" (1974
pub. 1983)
Boris Khazanov (b. 1928)
From The King's Hour (1968-69
pub. 1976)
Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999)
"Afánta-Utóma" ("Fantasia-Judaica") from Glints of the Wave (late 1960s-1970s
pub. 1978)
David Markish (b. 1938)
"The Appearance of Prophet Elijah, 1714" from The Jesters (1981-82)
Michael Kreps (1940-1994)
"Childhood" (1980s)
"The Cat with a Yellow Star" (1980s)
"Call of the Ancestors" (1980s)
Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936)
"Sarah and the Rooster" (1988)
Ruth Zernova (1919-2004)
"All Vows" (1988)
David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936)
"Chagall's Self-Portrait with Wife" (1975
pub. 1990)
"My Slavic Soul" (1975
pub. 1990)
"Villa Borghese" (1987-90)
"Hände Hoch!" (1999)
Marina Temkina (b. 1948)
"1995: Happy New Year!" (1995)
Dina Rubina (b. 1953)
From Here Comes the Messiah! (1996)
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002)
"The Arrest of an Antisemite" (1998)
Anna Gorenko (1972-1999)
"wake up all the poets all died overnight . . ." (1995)
"The Golem" (1997)
"Translating from the European" (1999)
Outline of Jewish-Russian History John D. Klier
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1772-2000: A Selected Bibliography
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index of Authors
Index of Translators
Index Index of Names, Works, and Subjects.
About the Editor.
Half-Title
Editors
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates
Note on How to Use This Anthology
General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature Maxim D. Shrayer
Early Voices: 1800s-1850s
Editor's Introduction
Leyba Nevakhovich (1776-1831)
From Lament of the Daughter of Judah (1803)
Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889)
"The People" (1840)
Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896)
From An Answer to the Slav (1849
pub. 1911)
Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869)
From The Penal Recruit (1859)
Seething Times: 1860s-1880s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Levanda (1835-1888)
From Seething Times (1860s
pub. 1871-73)
Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885)
"Childhood Sufferings" from Notes of a Jew (1863
pub. 1871-73)
Rashel Khin (1861-1928)
From The Misfit (1881)
Semyon Nadson (1862-1887)
From "The Woman" (1883)
"I grew up shunning you, O most degraded nation . . ." (1885)
On the Eve: 1890s-1910s
Editor's Introduction
Ben-Ami (1854-1932)
Preface to Collected Stories and Sketches (1898)
David Aizman (1869-1922)
"The Countrymen" (1902)
Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927)
From The Jews (1903)
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
"In Memory of Herzl" (1904)
Sasha Cherny (1880-1932)
"The Jewish Question" (1909)
"Judeophobes" (1909)
S. An-sky (1863-1920)
"The Book" (1910)
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
"Palestine" (1916)
Sofia Parnok (1885-1933)
"My anguish does the Lord not heed . . ." (1913-22)
"Hagar" (1913-22)
"Not for safekeeping for awhile . . ." (1913-22)
Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918)
"A Jewish Wedding" (1916)
"Regimental Inspection" (1917)
Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Lunts (1901-1924)
"Native Land" (1922).
Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989)
"Shields (and Candles)" (1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
"Not my mother but a Tula peasant woman . . ." (1917
1922)
"In Moscow I was born. I never . . ." (1923)
Andrey Sobol (1888-1926)
"The Count" (1922-23)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
From The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples (1922)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
From Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1923)
Matvey Royzman (1896-1973)
"Kol Nidrei" (1923)
Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)
"The Assassination of Uritsky" (1923)
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
"Judaic Chaos" from Noise of Time (1925)
"One Alexander Herzovich . . ." (1931)
"Say, desert geometer, shaper . . ." (1933)
Dovid Knut (1900-1955)
"I, Dovid-Ari ben Meir…" (1925)
"A Kishinev Burial" (1929)
"The Land of Israel" (1938)
Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942)
"Shield of David, crescent or ikon . . ." (1923)
"Where's Home?" (1925)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
"The Rabbi's Son" (1924)
"Awakening" (1931)
Vera Inber (1890-1972)
"The Nightingale and the Rose" (1925)
Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969)
"Encounter" (1927)
Viktor Fink (1888-1973)
From Jews on the Land (1929)
"The Preachers"
"The New Culture"
Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972)
"R" (1929)
Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934)
"Origin"(1930)
From February (1934)
Mark Egart (1901-1956)
From The Scorched Land (1932)
Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942)
"The Prodigal Son Returns Home" (1930) by Ilf
From The Little Golden Calf (1931) by Ilf and Petrov
Raisa Blokh (1899-1943)
"A snatch of speech came floating on the air . . ." (1932)
"Remember, father would stand . . ." (1933)
War and Shoah: 1940s
Editor's Introduction
Boris Yampolsky (1921-1972)
"Mr. Dykhes and Others" from Country Fair (ca. 1940).
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
"To the Jews" (1941)
"Six Poems" (The January 1945 Novy mir cycle)
Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968)
"I Saw It" (1942)
"Kerch" (1942)
Sofia Dubnova-Erlich (1885-1986)
"Shtetl" (1943)
"Scorched Hearth" (1944)
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
"The Hell of Treblinka" (1944)
Lev Ozerov (1914-1996)
"Babi Yar" (1944-45
pub. 1946)
Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978)
"Death Camp" (1945)
Yury German (1910-1967)
From Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Corps (1949)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
"In the Lowlands" (1944)
"Odessa" (1944)
From Doctor Zhivago (1946-[55]
pub. 1957)
The Thaw: 1950s-1960s
Editor's Introduction
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
"These Abrám, Isák and Yákov . . ." (1953
pub. 1989)
"Of the Jews" (1952-56
pub. 1961)
"Oh, but we Jews had all the luck …" (before 1955)
"Horses in the Ocean" (1956)
"Prodigal Son" (1956)
"Puny Jewish children . . ." (1957-58
pub. 1989)
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
From Life and Fate (1960
pub. 1980)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
"Jewish graveyard near Leningrad . . ." (1958
pub. 1965)
"I'm not asking death for immortality . . ." (ca. 1961
pub. 1992)
Vladimir Britanishsky (1933-2015)
"A German Girl" (1957-58
pub. 1993)
Yuly Daniel (1925-1988)
From This Is Moscow Speaking (1961)
Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962)
"Enemies" (1962)
Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982)
"In the country that has nearly forgotten . . ." (1939
pub. 1990s)
"Who are you, repatriated widows? . . ." (ca. 1943
pub. 1990s)
"Girls with golden eyes . . ." (1960
pub. 1990s)
"You're mistaken . . ." (1961
pub. 1990s)
"It's the end of our nation . . ." (1962
pub. 1990s)
"My Slavic language is Russian . . ." (1963
pub. 1990s)
"I'm Moyshe from Berdichev . . ." (1963
pub. 1990s).
"Eve, a civilized Jewess . . ." (1964
pub. 1990s)
"Expressionism-Zionism . . ." (1965)
"Blessed be the ill fate . . ." (1967)
"Gate slamming, shelter closing . . ." (1967)
"There are antisemites, and antisemites . . ." (1974)
"Some say: in Solzhenitsyn's time . . ." (1974)
Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s
Editor's Introduction
Vassily Aksyonov (1932-2009)
"Victory: A Story with Exaggerations" (1965)
Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936)
"When that teacher in Poland, so as not . . ." (1966)
"Letters" (1966)
Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999)
"In Memory of My Father" (1962
pub. 1999)
"Psalm 3" (1965-66
pub. 1979)
"Psalm 116 (117)" (1965-66
pub. 1979)
"Psalm 132 (133)" (1965-66
pub. 1988)
"Psalm 136 (137)" (1965-66
pub. 1993)
"Psalm 150" (1965-66
pub. 1993)
"A Pole Rode" (1985
pub. 1992)
Aleksandr Aronov (1934-2001)
"Ghetto. 1943" (1960s
pub. 1989)
"That raving blatherskite . . ." (1960s
pub. 1993)
Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003)
"Khaim" (1973
pub. 1979)
Yury Karabchievsky (1938-1992)
From The Life of Alexander Zilber (1974-75)
Inna Lisnyanskaya (1928-2014)
"My father, a military doctor . . ." (1975
pub. 1980)
"An Incident" (1981
pub. 1983)
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
"Let's cross out the Pale . . ." (1970s
pub. 1985)
"I love the antisemites . . ." (before 1977
pub. 1988)
"The rabbis came down to the valley . . ." (before 1977
pub. 1989)
Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998)
From Heavy Sand (1975-77
pub. 1978)
Yury Trifonov (1925-1981)
"A Visit with Marc Chagall" (1980) from The Overturned House
Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980)
From "Only My Heart Was Broken . . ." (1980)
Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935)
"For the Last Time" (1987)
Sara Pogreb (b. 1921)
"I'm going to see my grandparents. The cart . . ." (1986).
"I'm bidding farewell to the slush . . ." (1989)
Israel Metter (1909-1996)
Pedigree (1980s)
Aleksandr Mezhirov (1923-2009)
From Blizzard (1986-2000)
Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005)
Journey to Kashgar (1973-89)
Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947)
From The Confession of a Jew (1993)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943)
"Genele the Purse Lady" (1993)
The Jewish Exodus: 1970s-1990s
Editor's Introduction
Lev Mak (b. 1939)
"A Farewell to Russia" (1974
pub. 1976)
"August in Odessa" (1974
pub. 1983)
Boris Khazanov (b. 1928)
From The King's Hour (1968-69
pub. 1976)
Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999)
"Afánta-Utóma" ("Fantasia-Judaica") from Glints of the Wave (late 1960s-1970s
pub. 1978)
David Markish (b. 1938)
"The Appearance of Prophet Elijah, 1714" from The Jesters (1981-82)
Michael Kreps (1940-1994)
"Childhood" (1980s)
"The Cat with a Yellow Star" (1980s)
"Call of the Ancestors" (1980s)
Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936)
"Sarah and the Rooster" (1988)
Ruth Zernova (1919-2004)
"All Vows" (1988)
David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936)
"Chagall's Self-Portrait with Wife" (1975
pub. 1990)
"My Slavic Soul" (1975
pub. 1990)
"Villa Borghese" (1987-90)
"Hände Hoch!" (1999)
Marina Temkina (b. 1948)
"1995: Happy New Year!" (1995)
Dina Rubina (b. 1953)
From Here Comes the Messiah! (1996)
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002)
"The Arrest of an Antisemite" (1998)
Anna Gorenko (1972-1999)
"wake up all the poets all died overnight . . ." (1995)
"The Golem" (1997)
"Translating from the European" (1999)
Outline of Jewish-Russian History John D. Klier
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1772-2000: A Selected Bibliography
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index of Authors
Index of Translators
Index Index of Names, Works, and Subjects.
About the Editor.