Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,1 (2021) 1-17
Keywords:
Bogoras, Waldemar,
;
Pogroms
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
;
Historical fiction History and criticism
;
Ethnology in literature
;
Homelʹ (Belarus)
Abstract:
In 1904, Vladimir Bogoraz went to Gomel’, a city in the province of Mogilev in the central-west of the Russian Empire, to interview Russians and Jews and to report on a trial relating to a pogrom that had occurred there in September 1903. The semi-fictional work that resulted, Silhouettes from Gomel’: Sketches (Gomel’skie siluety. Ocherki), which Bogoraz published under the pseudonym Tan, gives voice to a diverse gallery of those who participated in the pogrom or witnessed it: Jews, Russians, men, women, teenagers, the elderly, Old Believers, court officials, a state-appointed rabbi, and injured victims. This article represents the first attempt to offer a scholarly analysis of Bogoraz's remarkable work in the context of both the history of Jewish–Russian relations and of the evolution of the genre of literary ethnography to which it belongs.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2021.1952023
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