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The Soviet Jewish bookshelf : Jewish culture and identity between the lines : a Sarnat Library book / Marat Grinberg

Grinberg, Marat, 1977- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2023]

xi, 258 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Zielgruppe: 5PGJ, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen. - Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)

Erscheint auch als: The Soviet Jewish bookshelf / Grinberg, Marat (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-68458-131-3 (paperback)

978-1-68458-132-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022036040

OCoLC: 1355329979     

Z1003.5.S62

028.90947     Ähnliche Literatur

FIV Notation: RA07.01: Europa / Osteuropa / Sowjetunion ; SG06: Gesellschaft / Medien/Information ; SG09: Gesellschaft / Religion/Religionsgemeinschaften

*Juden ; Buch ; Lesen ; Sowjetunion      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews -- Books and reading -- Soviet union ; Jews -- Soviet Union -- Identity

European history ; Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen ; HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; HISTORY / Jewish ; Jewish studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union ; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik ; Literature: history & criticism ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) ; Russia ; Russland ; UdSSR, Sowjetunion

An original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era. In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading uniquely provided many Soviet Jews with an entry to communal memory and identity. The bookshelf was both a depository of selective Jewish knowledge and often the only conspicuously Jewish presence in their homes. The typical Soviet Jewish bookshelf consisted of a few translated works from Hebrew and numerous translations from Yiddish and German as well as Russian books with both noticeable and subterranean Jewish content. Such volumes, officially published, and not intended solely for a Jewish audience, afforded an opportunity for Soviet Jews to indulge insubordinate feelings in a largely safe manner. Grinberg is interested in pinpointing and decoding the complex reading strategies and the specifically Jewish uses to which the books on the Soviet Jewish bookshelf were put. He reveals that not only Jews read them, but Jews read them in a specific way

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