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As the Dust of the Earth
2024
Overview
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the
Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the
Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to
the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the
poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and
care.
Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs,
newspaper articles, and documentary, Harriet Murav argues that
poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the
facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They
were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept
familiar from their everyday lifeworld-hefker, or abandonment.
Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish
investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing
comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for
Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by
creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and
more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the
Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of
such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of
survivors to process and cope with catastrophe.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Europe
/ History
/ Jewish
/ Jews
/ Jews-Crimes against-Ukraine-History-20th century-Sources
/ Judaism
/ Pogroms
/ Pogroms-Psychological aspects
/ Pogroms-Ukraine-History-20th century-Sources
/ RELIGION
/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ Russian & Former Soviet Union
/ Ukraine-History-Revolution, 1917-1921-Atrocities-Personal narratives
/ Ukraine-History-Revolution, 1917-1921-Literature and the revolution
ISBN
9780253068804, 0253068800, 0253068827, 0253068819, 9780253068798, 9780253068811, 0253068797, 9780253068828
