ISBN:
9798887190181
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (250 p.)
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Keywords:
Jews Fiction
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
;
19th century
;
Jews in Eastern Europe
;
Jews
;
Modern Jewish literature
;
Russian-Jewish
;
coming-of-age
;
education
;
novel
;
students
Abstract:
Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernity in their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer of the nineteenth century, Lev Levanda (1835–1888) is barely known in the English-speaking world, with some of his most famous works, like the 1873 novel Seething Times, having yet to be published in their entirety. Another such work is An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), which appears here in English for the first time, translated with elegance by Hugh McLean and edited by Brian Horowitz and Conor Daly. A classic in Russian-Jewish literature from 1882, An Amateur Performance describes the rush by Jews to government schools, secular education, and the lights of enlightenment, while also revealing the struggles of these Jewish students on the cusp of modernity, including keen observations on their lack of preparation, their confusion over the new ideas, and their confrontation with the repressive power of the Russian government. In short, it’s a brilliant sociological study of Russian Jewry in the 1850s as remembered by a writer who fought for progress and Jewish integration
Note:
Frontmatter
,
Contents
,
Acknowledgements
,
Preface
,
Introduction
,
An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
,
On Hugh and a Berkeley PhD: Recollections of Hugh McLean, Translator and Professor of Slavic Studies
,
Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9798887190181
URL:
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