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February 2025
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Slavic Review
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry: Wartime and Poetic Time” raises questions about the significance of new technology, new media, and the concept of “real time” by showing how poetry, even the new forms of poetic reportage coming out of present-day Ukraine, makes its own time.
April 2024
August 2023
April 2023
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East European Jewish Affairs
December 2022
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February 2022
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Itsik Kipnis’s 1926 Yiddish novel Months and Days: A Chronicle , was one of the first literary accounts of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. Although it reads like fiction, the text includes the names of real-life perpetrators and victims and also provides other factual information about what took place in Slovechno, Ukraine, in July 1919. Kipnis’s novel is not only about facts. It is intensely personal: the young author had just gotten married when the pogroms in his region began. The larger narrative thus consists of two seemingly incongruous components: a love story, and a story of neighborly violence. Kipnis weaves together the emotions of love, tenderness, and care with fear, rage, resentment, and bitterness. What emerges is a deeply experiential account of the history of violence in Eastern Europe after World War I.
November 2021
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2 Citations
Pogroms: A Documentary History explores the remarkable long history of anti-Jewish violence in the Eastern European borderlands, beginning with the pogroms of 1881–1882 in the Russian Empire and concluding in Poland on the eve of World War II. The volume opens with a comprehensive introductory essay on pogroms, followed by nine chapters of case studies. Organized chronologically, each chapter includes a unique array of archival and published sources, selected and introduced by a scholar expert in the period under investigation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also contain memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. Pogroms explains the origins, timing, and consequences of pogrom violence at various levels of society, as well as the lives, relationships, activities, and interactions of those groups of people that rarely appear in the historical literature. By providing a nuanced analysis of the specific geopolitical context where the violence erupted, the volume captures the specific nature of the waves of pogroms that broke out in different regions and at different times. Informed by the literature on collective violence and comparative genocide studies, the volume helps re-evaluate the complex motivations, policy directives, and reactions of the most powerful decision-makers to those officials and their accomplices operating in the provinces. The result is a balanced and accessible guide to the history of anti-Jewish violence.
January 2021
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Ab Imperio
December 2020
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December 2019
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... The author gives voice to those who were silenced by the Gulag and therefore cannot write for themselves. 52 If Solzhenitsyn conceived of voice as the capacity to write one's experiences, however, Vigdorova defined it quite literally as utterances that could be heard and transcribed. Her emphasis on spoken language reconfigured her readers as a community of listeners who were gathered in space and time. ...
January 1998
... The literature of 21 A turning point in literary studies took place in 2011 when we saw Soviet literature of the Holocaust enter the research scene. For example, in 2011, Harriet Murav, in her book Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia analyzed the poems of Ilya Selvinsky and Perets Markish, as well as the texts of Der Nister (Murav 2011). In the same year, Maxim Shrayer published an article on Ilya Selvinsky, Lev Ozerov, and Ilya Ehrenburg (Shrayer 2011). ...
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Babi Yar from Outside the USSR
August 2011
... Dostoevsky was fascinated by sectarian movements (cf. Morris 1993, Murav 1992, and others), and he even derived the name of his most famous hero "Raskol'nikov" from the words for schism (raskol) or schismatics (raskol'niki). As for the skoptsy, the castrates themselves are a noticeable, if enigmatic, theme in The Idiot and make appearances in other works as well, either overtly or in the subtext. ...
October 1994
The Russian Review
... For an overview of Rozanov's stance on Judaism and Jewry see Glouberman (1976), on Jewry and sexuality see Engelstein (1994) and Mondry (2010Mondry ( , 2021, on Jewish religion and blood libel see Kurganov and Mondri (2000); Murav (2017). 2 On Rozanov's interest in the representation of animals in art see Mondry (1999). ...
July 2017
... Many … are still wearing the yellow star," he speculated, "perhaps as a safe-conduct against renewed attacks. " On January 16,1945, the day of the liberation of the International Ghetto where he resided, Jenő Lévai entered the following in his diary, "Interesting scene: we put back on our building the yellow star that had been removed just a few days ago. " 46 Such observations suggest that Jewish Couple therefore, is not a liberation, but a post-liberation photograph, representing hope for dealing with the new circumstances. ...
April 2017
Slavic Review
... Zestawienie "dekoracji żydowskiej" i "poradzieckiej pustki" nie zawsze jest ironiczne, czasem zamienia się w nostalgiczne opłakiwanie prawdziwej żydowskości, która zniknęła. wynika z tego, że traktuje go jedynie na poziomie abstrakcyjnej, utopijnej (w negatywnym rozumieniu) "bajki", jak puste znaczące, bez przypisanej treści (Murav, 2012). ...
January 2010
... 9 The estrangement of Soviet non-Muslim populations from religious observance is also well-documented. See, for example, Shternshis (2006) for Judaism, Quijada (2020) for Buddhism and Shamanism, and Wanner (2022) for Christianity. Notably, Quijada (2020) and Wanner (2022) also analyze (post-)Soviet religiosities beyond the religion-as-ethno-national-identity thesis. ...
October 2007
Slavic Review
... Literature dedicated to transgenerational transmission of traumatizing memories about the political oppression in the Soviet Union (Baker and Gippenreiter 1998;Duprat-Kushtanina 2013;Shemanova 2016;Omelchenko and Andreyeva 2017;Epple 2020) mostly confirms our generalizations regarding people without clear religious affiliation. An intergenerational memory transmission mechanism is, in fact, absent; this results in multiple blank spaces or spots where certain events, people, or periods have been completely erased from the stories passed down to the youngest generations (Duprat-Kushtanina 2013, p. 226; see also : Wertsch 2008;Logunova 2009;Murav 2011;Krasnoborov 2017;etc.). Researchers conclude that each person or family survived traumatogenic events individually, and not as a collective or generational trauma (see for example : Khazanov 2008;Koldushko 2019). ...
November 2011
Slavonica
... Here I have in mind Vasilii Rozanov (1894) and Sergei Bulgakov (1903), who both saw Ivan as a deeply ethical character and a critic of religion -but on a religious basis. These readers have later been criticized for not understanding the novel correctly (Terras 1998, 6), but as Harriet Murav (2004) has argued, they were quite on point in seeing Ivan as providing an absolute defence of the "absolute singularity of the other." 19 His tragedy was that his surroundings did not see this. ...
December 2004
Slavic Review
... We investigate the possibility that some of these immolations were staged to avoid conflict through the crafty use of superstition. Historically, the mainstream Orthodox Church promulgated the belief that people who committed suicide shunned themselves from God, and as a result, had to be buried in remote locations and forgotten (Paperno 1997). We claim that this superstition was employed to minimize the costs of the civil conflict. ...
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Self-immolation
September 2000
Slavic Review
