Jews in Ukrainian literature : representation and identity /

Jews in Ukrainian literature : representation and identity /

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Author / Creator:	Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950-
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Jews in literature. Ukrainian literature -- History and criticism. Jews in literature. Ukrainian literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205470

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ISBN:	9780300156256 0300156251 0300125887 9780300125887 9780300125887 1282353004 9781282353008
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were antagonistic toward one another and interacted only when compelled to do so by economic necessity. Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesizes recent research in the West and in the Ukraine, where access to Soviet-era literature has become possible only in the recent, post-independence period. Many of the works discussed are either little-known or unknown in the West. By demonstrating how Ukrainians have imagined their historical encounters with Jews in different ways over the decades, this account also shows how the Jewish presence has contributed to the acceptance of cultural diversity within contemporary Ukraine.
Other form:	Print version: Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950- Jews in Ukrainian literature. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300125887

Table of Contents:

Confronting the other, 1800-1880
Meeting at the crossroads, 1881-1914
A dream of rapprochement, 1914-1929
Constructing Jewish identity in Ukrainian literature, 1914-1929
A Jewish voice: Leonid Pervomaisky
The rising tide of resentment, 1929-1939
The second World War and late Stalinism, 1939-1953
Awakening from history, 1953-2005
Postindependence ironies.