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The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf – Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf – Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines

by Brandeis University Press

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MPN9781684581313
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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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