{"product_id":"as-the-dust-of-the-earth-the-literature-of-abandonment-in-revolutionary-russia-and-ukraine-paperback-softback-9780253068804","title":"As the Dust of the Earth; The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253068804","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAs the Dust of the Earth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarriet Murav (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253068804\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w illus\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.494 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"During the chaos of the Civil War, Russian and Ukrainian Jews experienced a traumatic abandonment by state and society that left them helpless and vulnerable before predators of all sorts.  Harriet Murav's study of the written record of this experience through imaginative literature, memoirs, interviews with survivors, and stories written by children sets the book apart from other accounts of the era's pogroms. Murav analyzes and translates the works of Yiddish poets such as David Hofshteyn, Leyb Kvitko, and Itsik Kipnis. She presents an emotional landscape that contextualizes the works of Marc Chagall, Isaac Babel, and the literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky, who merits a whole chapter. Murav treats her subjects with tenderness and respect to bring their anguish and fear to the page. Rarely does a work of history generalize so eloquently and poignantly implicitly to evoke the shared experience of others similarly abandoned without protection of law, public service, and societal norms of decency. Read this work to sympathize with those who suffered in a bygone era and to weep for those whose torment is ongoing now.\"—Jeffrey Brooks is the author of The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 Brilliantly 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\u003e Focusing 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eHefker\u003c\/i\u003e and Abandonment\u003cbr\u003e 2. David Hofshteyn Listening\u003cbr\u003e 3. Leyb Kvitko's Poetry of Abandonment\u003cbr\u003e 4. Enfleshment\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Documentation\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e5. Chronicling a \u003ci\u003eHefker\u003c\/i\u003e World: Itsik Kipnis's \u003ci\u003eMonths and Days\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e6. Victor Shklovsky's Archive of Abandonment\u003cbr\u003e 7. Counting\u003cbr\u003e 8. Children\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525596934424,"sku":"9780253068804","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/as-the-dust-of-the-earth-the-literature-of-abandonment-in-revolutionary-russia-and-ukraine-paperback-softback-9780253068804","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}