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L’vov-Rogachevskii, V. ; Arthur Levin; B I Gorev : A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN JEWISH LITERATURE: INCLUDING B. GOREV'S ESSAY "RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND THE JEWS"

Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Ardis, 1979

Original Cloth. 8vo. 213 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Translation of Russko-evreiskaia literatura by V. Lvov-Rogachevsky; edited and translated by Arthur Levin. Includes B. Gorev's 1917 essay, Russian Literature and the Jews (Gorev was the pseudonym of Boris Goldman (1874-1937) , member of the Menshevik Central Committee, and later a professor at the Frunze Military Academy; his brother was Mark Liber, a leading Bundist) . Rogachevsky (1874-1930) , was a leading Menshevik, and after 1917 was considered one of the best Marxist literary critics; his study on Russian Jewish Literature, originally published 1922, and was for a long period considered the comprehensive work on the subject. Chapters focus on Jewish authors in Russian in the period 1860 to 1917 (including Ansky, Frug, Aleichem, Mandelstam, Yaroshevsky, Yushkevich, and others) , and the portrait of the Jew in Russian Literature from Pushkin to Chekhov. Subjects: Russian literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism. Jews - Soviet Union - Intellectual life. Judaism and literature - Soviet Union. Judaism and literature - Russia. Jews in literature. Jews - Intellectual life. Judaism and literature. Literature. Russian literature - Jewish authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Clean and fresh. Very good condition in VG jacket. (BIBLIOG-35-55)

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