Imagining Russian Jewry

Memory, History, Identity

af Steven J. Zipperstein

This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sourcesΓÇöincluding novels, plays, and archival materialΓÇöImagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it mean... (Læs mere)