How the Soviet Jew Was Made

by Sasha Senderovich

Book Overview

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist

A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the empire's western borderlands,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674238192
• ISBN13: 9780674238190
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"