{"product_id":"as-the-dust-of-the-earth-the-literature-of-abandonment-in-revolutionary-russia-and-ukraine-hardcover","title":"As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Murav\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. \u003ci\u003eAs the Dust of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld--hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFocusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, \u003ci\u003eAs the Dust of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative and World Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of \u003ci\u003eHoly Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels \u0026amp; the Poetics of Cultural Critique, Russia's Legal Fictions, Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia, and David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783632945440,"sku":"9780253068798","price":162.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c354208f62bea1e36f47292ca25c0054_b7b1712f-6559-41c4-bca6-3b2dbddb84d1.webp?v=1780591282","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/as-the-dust-of-the-earth-the-literature-of-abandonment-in-revolutionary-russia-and-ukraine-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}