5. Yeder zeyger a yortsayt: The Past as Memory in Postwar Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration and Translation xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: From the Revolution Through the Second World War
7. 1. The Stillbirth of Revolution 21
8. 2. Socialist Construction, the Luftmentsh, and the New Jew 66
9. 3. Fighting the Great Patriotic War 111
10. 4. In Mourning: Responding to the Destruction of the Jews 150
11. Part II: Postwar Reconstructions
12. Introduction 199
13. 5. Yeder zeyger a yortsayt: The Past as Memory in Postwar Literature 209
14. 6. Jewish Spaces and Retro-Shtetls 245
15. 7. Translating Empire 285
16. 8. Afterwards 319
17. Notes 347
18. Works Cited 371
19. Index 395