This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the 'seventies’ to the 'war aliyah’ of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israel’s historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.
Spis treści
From the Editors
Russian-Language Literature in Eretz Israel (Basic Outlines and Authors)
Vladimir Khazan
Julius Margolin and His Times
Luba Jurgenson
Israeli-Soviet Literary Ties in the 1950s–1980s: from Translations to Aliyah Library
Marat Grinberg
Leaving Russia: Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1970s–1980s
Aleksei Surin
Paths of Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in Israel
Maxim D. Shrayer
Prose of the Aliyah of the 1990s–2000s
Roman Katsman
Russian-Israeli Prose in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century
Elena Promyshlianskaia
Genres of Israeli-Russian Fantastic Fiction
Elena Rimon
The Phenomenon of Russian-Israeli Dramaturgy of the 1970s–2020s
Zlata Zaretsky
From the History of Russian Israeli Literary Criticism (On One Method of Delineating Literary Contacts between Russia and Israel)
Leonid Katsis
About the Contributors
Index
O autorze
Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author, scholar, and translator, is a professor at Boston College. Shrayer was born in Moscow in 1967 and immigrated to the US in 1987. His recent books include A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas and Of Politics and Pandemics. Shrayer’s new literary memoir, Immigrant Baggage, was published in 2023.