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A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and
Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet
Jew as a novel cultural figure not just a
minority but an ambivalent character navigating
between the Jewish past and Bolshevik
modernity.The Russian Revolution of 1917
transformed the Jewish community of the former
tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the
empire's western borderlands, where Jews had been
required to live, was abolished several months
before the Bolsheviks came to power. Many Jews
quickly exited the shtetls, seeking prospects
elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others
for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands
tried their luck in the newly established Jewish
Autonomous Region in the Far East, where urban
merchants would become tillers of the soil. For
these Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the
possibility of the new, and the pressure to
discard old ways of life.This ambivalence was
embodied in the Soviet Jew8213no just a
descriptive demographic term but a novel
cultural figure. In insightful readings of
Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and
reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds characters
traversing space and history and carrying with
them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a
lost Jewish world. There is the Siberian settler
of Viktor Fink8217sJews in the Taiga, the
folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the
fragmented, bickering family of Moyshe
Kulbak8217sThe Zelmenyaners, whose insular
lives are disrupted by the march of
technological, political, and social change.
There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits,
the pogrom survivor, the 233mig233who
repatriates to the USSR.Senderovich urges us to
see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority
but also a particular kind of liminal being. How
the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound
meditation on culture and identity in a shifting
landscape.
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