ISBN: 9780804770071 | Hardcover
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893–1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysti... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780253041869 | Hardcover
In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, p... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780804735469 | Hardcover
This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of the First World War.... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780253041876 | Paperback
Krutikov illustrates why Der Nister's work is so important to understandings of Soviet literature, the Russian Revolution, and the catastrophic demise... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780253067302 | Hardcover
For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, fo... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780253067319 | Paperback
For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, fo... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781841594217 | Hardcover
Kiev - Kyiv - is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages: the Bols... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780241552674 | Hardcover
Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally publ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781509823291 | Paperback
A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781529012118 | Hardcover
Mikhail Bulgakov’s astonishing Russian masterpiece, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, with an introduction by Orlando Figes.... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780099490661 | Paperback
Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780099540946 | Paperback
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylum... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781781885789 | Paperback
Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books for women, holy books for men' in... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781781885772 | Hardcover
Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books for women, holy books for men' in... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781781883365 | Paperback
This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781910887073 | Hardcover
This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities.... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780753559246 | Paperback
'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station an... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9781906257279 | Hardcover
A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries, letters and memoirs and illustrated with m... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780300276800 | Paperback
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt... Meer informatie
