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For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (Studies in Jewish History)

Michael Stanislawski

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This is the first full-length biography of Judah Leib Gordon (1830-92), the most important Hebrew poet of the 19th century, and one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry. Setting Gordon's life and work amidst the political, cultural, and religious upheavals of his society, Stanislawski attempts to counter traditional stereotypical readings of Eastern European Jewish history. As a prominent and passionate exponent of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia, Gordon advocated a humanist and liberal approach to all the major questions facing Jews in their tortuous transition to modernity--the religious reform of Judaism, the attractions and limits of political liberalism, the relations between Jews and Gentiles, the nature of modern anti-Semitism, the status of women in Jewish life, the possibility of a secular Jewish culture, the nature of Zionism, and the relations between Jews in the Diaspora and the Jewish community in the Land of Israel. His personal story is a fascinating drama that both symbolizes and summarizes the cultural and political challenges facing Russian Jewry at a crucial time in its history, challenges that remain pertinent and controversial today.

The Penguin Book of Russian Verse

Dimitri, Ed. Obolensky

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Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky: Selected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky, Daniel Weissbort

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A representative selection of Zabolotsy's work. This collection includes his poem "Agriculture Triumphant".

Poems and Problems (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

middle of the road 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 8 people found this review helpful.

nabokov, while being a superb writer of fiction, isn't the best poet there is. i'm not saying the poems in this collection were bad, just nothing spectacular. (the chess problems on the other hand were a joke, way too easy)

which is a shame because, like many other fiction writers, he found great dissapointment in the world not viewing him as a poet. but, once again, it's because he didn't produce that many stellar poems. it was interesting to see a well-known translator translate his own work. it has to bring something new to the world of translation. i wonder if it has any special problems...

Pushkin: The Bronze Horseman (BCP Russian Texts)

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This last and most brilliant narrative poem by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, should form an essential part of all courses in Russian literature. It combines praise of Peter the Great and his city of St Petersburg with a dramatic account of the devastating flood of 1824 and a lowly individual's resultant insanity. The political, historical, religious, ecological, and metaphysical-existential questions which Pushkin formulates with dazzling power and concision have been the subject of endless critical debate. This new student edition includes an interpretative introduction which seeks to accommodate conflicting critical readings, copious linguistic and literary commentary, and a separate short essay on the poem's St Petersburg background.

Marvell, Nabokov: Childhood and Arcadia

Michael Long

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Chekhov: Three Farces (Russian Texts)

Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov

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Xenia (Sun & Moon Classics)

Arkadii Dragomoschenko

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Arkadii Dragomoschenko

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