Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures; Transfer, Mediality and Situativity
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 73-93
Keywords:
Dymow, Ossip,
;
Dymow, Ossip, Language
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Authors, Yiddish
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Autobiography
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Jews, Russian Languages
;
Language and languages in literature
;
Civilization in literature
;
Russia Civilization
Abstract:
This chapter engages with Osip Dymov’s narrative strategies of interlocking Russian and Yiddish cultures. In Dymov’s autobiography Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes), which first appeared in the journal forverts in 1941–1942, this encounter shows first of all in the entanglement of language use and thematic focus: the memoirs were written in Yiddish for a Yiddish-speaking audience, but they deal primarily with Russian culture. The narrator strongly idealizes Russian literature and puts it into a Jewish context by describing it as the most important model and motivation for his own actions. Crucial turns in the narrator’s life are associated with Russian literature. Through a skillful contextualization of singular narrated events even Fyodor Dostoyevsky appears in a philo-Semitic light.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004435285_005
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