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A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution: Review Essay

A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution: Review Essay A Little World in Transition: Review Essay ♦ 137 A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution Review Essay Amelia Glaser University of California at San Diego The End of Everything, by David Bergelson, translation and introduction by Joseph Sherman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 312 pp. $18.00. Jewish Public Culture in the Late Tsarist Empire, by Jeffrey Veidlinger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 382 pp. $24.95. Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution, by Kenneth B. Moss. Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 408 pp. $39.95. Russia, 1917. The storming of the Winter Palace. Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne and a provisional government replaces him. The poet Alexander Blok, who had hinted at his generation’s mounting frustration in 1912 when he wrote “All remain just like this, there is no exit” [vse budet tak, iskhoda net], writes his famous poems The Twelve in 1918, setting it in a Petersburg suburb where Red army soldier shouts to a flag-waving Jesus, “Get out of the way, we’re going to shoot” [vykhodi, streliat nachnem]. Also in 1918 the artist Natan Altman drapes a banner across Petersburg’s Palace Square: “ He who was naught shall be all.” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution: Review Essay

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A Little World in Transition: Review Essay ♦ 137 A Little World in Transition: Jewish Culture and the Russian Revolution Review Essay Amelia Glaser University of California at San Diego The End of Everything, by David Bergelson, translation and introduction by Joseph Sherman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 312 pp. $18.00. Jewish Public Culture in the Late Tsarist Empire, by Jeffrey Veidlinger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 382 pp. $24.95. Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution, by Kenneth B. Moss. Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 408 pp. $39.95. Russia, 1917. The storming of the Winter Palace. Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne and a provisional government replaces him. The poet Alexander Blok, who had hinted at his generation’s mounting frustration in 1912 when he wrote “All remain just like this, there is no exit” [vse budet tak, iskhoda net], writes his famous poems The Twelve in 1918, setting it in a Petersburg suburb where Red army soldier shouts to a flag-waving Jesus, “Get out of the way, we’re going to shoot” [vykhodi, streliat nachnem]. Also in 1918 the artist Natan Altman drapes a banner across Petersburg’s Palace Square: “ He who was naught shall be all.”

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesPurdue University Press

Published: Apr 13, 2011

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