Description
Book SynopsisIlluminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays
Trade Review"Henry has done a service in re-kindling the conversation regarding this iconoclast by constructing a new image of Gordin based on exhaustive archival work. . . . She should be commended for breaking new ground on such a significant figure, and, hopefully, providing access for future work from a range of disciplines."
-- Max Shulman * Studies in American Jewish Literature *
"Well researched and artfully argued, Henry's Rewriting Russia is a long-overdue book on this major figure that establishes how Jacob Gordin created a rich and important interplay between Yiddish and Russian forms that elevated the literary status of both."
-- Leah Garrett * The Russian Review *
"This new and elegantly written literary history . . . provides a new model for literary history by expertly weaving together previously unexamined Tsarist-era archival records with insightful literary analysis of Gordon's major works."
-- Barry Trachtenberg * H-Net Reviews *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Amerika
2. In the Old Country: The Reformer
3. A Russian Writer
4. The Perils of Performance: Di kreytser sonata (1902)
5. Don't Look Back: Orphan in the Underworld (1903)
6. Homecoming
Notes
Bibliography
Index
