Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner - Couverture rigide

Murav, Harriet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804732906 ISBN 13 : 9780804732901

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Identity Theft focuses on the life and writing of Avraam Uri Kovner. As one of the fiery Jewish nihilists of his generation, variously a critic, author, and bank embezzler, Kovner embodies the problem of identity as a series of translations across cultural boundaries. Kovner, who initiated modern Hebrew criticism, published two novels in Russian as well as a weekly column in a widely read Russian newspaper. He forged a bank check and became notorious in the Russian press as an example of the danger integration of the Jews represented to Russian society. From prison, and later in exile, Kovner defended the Jews in a series of letters to Fedor Dostoevsky and Vasilii Rozanov, both of whom vilified Jews in their writings. Ostracized by both the Jewish and Russian communities, he mimed and at the same time undermined rigid stereotypes of Jewish and Russian behavior, pointing out the uneasy interdependence of the two cultures he inhabited.

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À propos de l'auteur

Harriet Murav is Professor of Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literature, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Russia's Legal Fictions (1998) and Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique (Stanford, 1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804732906
• ISBN 13: 9780804732901
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible