As the dust of the Earth the literature of abandonment in revolutionary Russia and Ukraine / Harriet Murav.
| Author/creator | Murav, Harriet, 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages ; cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jews in Eastern Europe Jews in Eastern Europe (Bloomington, Ind.) ^A1406359 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Poetry. Hefker and abandonment ; David Hofshteyn listening ; Leyb Kvitko's poetry of abandonment ; Enfleshment -- Documentation. Chronicling a Hefker world: Itsik Kipnis's Months and Days ; Victor Shklovsky's Archive of Abandonment ; Counting ; Children -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "An estimated 40,000 Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War. How did Jewish poets and investigators in the 1920s make sense of such organized acts of violence (pogroms)? Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary reports, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld-hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023045557 |
| ISBN | 9780253068798 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780253068804 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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