Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew

by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial, these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300137311
• ISBN13: 9780300137316
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"