Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,2-3 (2021) 212-231
Keywords:
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, Criticism and interpretation
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Moses In literature
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Evrei na zemle (Motion picture : 1927)
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Bible. Influence
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Russian poetry Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Motion pictures
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Documentary films History and criticism
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Jews History 20th century
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Collective farms
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Exiles in literature
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Jews in literature
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Jews in motion pictures
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Crimea (Ukraine)
Abstract:
It is surprising that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet whose self-proclaimed mission was to give city streets a language, turned to publicizing farming collectives. No less noteworthy is the fact that this poet of internationalism worked on the ethnocentric project of promoting Jewish agrarian communities in Crimea. This article addresses Mayakovsky’s collaboration on the film Evrei na zemle (Jews on the Land, 1927), and his poems “Evrei (Tovarishcham iz OZETa)” (Jew [To Comrades from OZET], 1926) and “‘Zhid’” (“Yid,” 1928). I argue that in these works the poet reshuffles the svoi–chuzhoi (us-versus-them) dichotomy. Using the Moses story of exile and liberation, the poet both domesticates Jews through features of the dominant culture and marginalizes antisemites by ascribing to them the pejorative markers of the Jewish stereotype.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2022.2088361
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