A Double Burden, a Double Cross"" by Vladimir Khazan - 9781618117113

Name: A Double Burden, a Double Cross"" by Vladimir Khazan - 9781618117113
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

A Double Burden, a Double Cross\""Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer\nAuthor(s): Vladimir Khazan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9781618117113, 978-1618117113\nSynopsis\nIf a history of Russian-Jewish literature in the twentieth century (or, at least, a history of its authors and texts) were ever to be written, it would reveal a number of puzzling lacunae. One such lacuna is Andrei Sobol, a truly significant writer who, paradoxically, has not received due scholarly attention. This can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Sobols name goes virtually unmentioned in some of the most representative and authoritative studies dealing with the Russian-Jewish literary discourse. It is this scholarly gap that has prompted Vladimir Khazan to write this volume, a comprehensive and exhaustive account of Sobols public, literary, and artistic activities as a purely Russian-Jewish phenomenon. Khazan analyzes his bi.