{"product_id":"broken-heart-broken-wholeness-the-post-holocaust-plea-for-jewish-reconstruction-of-the-soviet-yiddish-writer-der-nister-9781618115300","title":"Broken Heart \/ Broken Wholeness: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1947, three years before his death in a labor camp hospital, one of the most significant Soviet Yiddish writers Der Nister (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884-1950) made a trip from Moscow to Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East. He traveled there on a special migrant train, together with a thousand Holocaust survivors. The present study examines this journey as an original protest against the conformism of the majority of Soviet Jewish activists. In his travel notes, Der Nister described the train as the \"\"modern Noah's ark,\"\" heading \"\"to put an end to the historical silliness\"\". This rhetoric paraphrasing Nietzsche's \"\"historical sickness\"\", challenged the Jewish history in the Diaspora, which broke the people's mythical wholeness. Der Nister formulated his vision of a post-Holocaust Jewish reconstruction more clearly in his previously unknown manifesto. Without their own territory, he wrote, the Jews were like \"\"a soul without a body or a body without a soul, and in either case, always a cripple\"\". Records of the fabricated investigation case against the anti-Soviet nationalist grouping in Birobidzhan reveal details about Der Nister's thoughts and real acts. Both the records and the manifesto are being published here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This book makes a contribution to the study of minorities in general, and Jews in particular, during the early years of the Soviet Union. It is also of use for those interested in issues related to the relationship between writers and Soviet authorities in this period.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003e- International Journal of Russian Studies (2018)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Zvi Gitelman\u003cp\u003e Note on the Translation and Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acronyms and Abbreviation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part One: DER NISTER’S JOURNEY FROM MOSCOW TO BIROBIDZHAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Wedding on a Migrant Train\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Der Nister’s Images and Impressions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “With the Second Echelon” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “With the New Settlers to Birobidzhan”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Man Dieth in a Tent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Russian-Jewish “Hybridization”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Comfort Ye My People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Real Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Two: INVESTIGATION CASE NO. 68\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Der Nister Affair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Accused in the Case \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Detention Order: BUZI MILLER, June 6, 1949, Birobidzhan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Interrogation Records\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant HESHL RABINKOV, July 23, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant BUZI MILLER, August 5, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant BUZI MILLER, August 29, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant BUZI MILLER, September 17, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant ITSIK FEFER, June 30, 1949, Moscow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant BUZI MILLER, October 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant BUZI MILLER and Defendant HESHL RABINKOV, October 28, 1949, Khabarovsk (Confrontation)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant LUBA VASSERMAN, July 12, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Arrestee GRIGORI FRID, April 4, 1938, Minsk (Testimony)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant LUBA VASSERMAN, August 17, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant SHIMEN SINIAVSKI-SINDELEVICH, October 25, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant FAIVISH ARONES, November 21, 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant FAIVISH ARONES, November [22–29?], 1949, Khabarovsk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Defendant FAIVISH ARONES and Witness ALEKSANDR DRISIN, November 29, 1949, Khabarovsk (Confrontation)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resubmission of the Indictment: Defendant BUZI MILLER, December 15, 1949, Khabarovsk \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bill of Indictment: BUZI MILLER, HESHL RABINKOV, ISROEL EMIOT, BER SLUTSKI, LUBA VASSERMAN, SHIMEN SINIAVSKI-SINDELEVICH, and FAIVISH ARONES, April 6, 1950, Khabarovsk (Excerpts)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Sentence: BUZI MILLER, May 31, 1950, Moscow (Excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resolution to Reduce the Prison Term and Release BUZI MILLER from Custody, December 27, 1955, Moscow (Excerpt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendix: Der Nister’s “Birobidzhan Manifesto” (Yiddish) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index of Names and Places\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359751962967,"sku":"9781618115300","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115300.jpg?v=1754125602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/broken-heart-broken-wholeness-the-post-holocaust-plea-for-jewish-reconstruction-of-the-soviet-yiddish-writer-der-nister-9781618115300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}