Harriet Murav
Biographic Data
| ID | 216108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Murav |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Murav |
| SIGNATURE | MURAV H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry
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
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
In Memoriam
wrote dozens of important books and articles about Soviet Jews. He was not a person of the mainstream. He did not like a propagandistic approach that rested on dichotomies; he always tried to see a more complex historical picture. In Israel during the Cold War, when the Jewish Section of the Communist Party was exclusively seen as a demonic force, you had to have been daring to say that matters were different. These were Jews with a national incl…
The Judgments of David Bergelson
In this paper, I read the Yiddish author David Bergelson’s statements at his secret trial through the lens of his own earlier fiction about Soviet justice, especially his novel Judgment. I examine Bergelson’s self-fashioning as a Jewish writer and how he uses his own Jewish background as a justification for his failures as a Soviet person. I offer some contextualization of Bergelson’s statements in light of other trials of other writers both befo…
"Introduction to "The Afterlife of Photographs
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Soviet Jews in World War II
This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic Waräóîas the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945, was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is among the first books to combine the study of Russian…
Jews in the East European borderlands
Music from a Speeding Train
Music from a Speeding Train
This work explores the Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish-language authors in the same literary universe - one in which modernism, revolution, and socialist realism join Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity
Violating the Canon
Violating the Canon" makes the case for an alternative Jewish and literary space in the context of Soviet war literature by comparing works by Vasilii Grossman, Il'ia Erenburg, and the Yiddish author Der Nister. In this article, Harriet Murav distinguishes the question of literary value from the question of identity and separates out the problem of determining the typicality or representativeness of a work from the problem of engaging the complex…
Journeys beyond the Pale
Identity Theft
Harriet Murav's brief, challenging volume uses Avraam Uri Kovner (1842Kovner ( -1909) ) to examine an alternative model of Jewish acculturation in tsarist Russia.Kovner, a self-made (and re
The Juridical Unconscious
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth CenturyFelman, Shoshana Harriet Murav Harriet Murav Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 234–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Harriet Murav; …
FromSkandalonto Scandal
Ivan Karamazov articulates the philosophical problem of the limits of religion in his "Rebellion." In this article, Harriet Murav argues that, far from being an enemy of religion, Ivan gets to the heart of the problem of responding to the suffering of the other. Christ crucified is a scandalous temptation, according to St. Paul. Extending the logic of theskandalonto Ivan makes possible an alternative reading of his "Rebellion." The suffering of t…
Reading Dostoevsky
Sinyavsky's Trial
Modernism and Revolution
The period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature, marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another? Victor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture, takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution, a ma…
Holy Foolishness
This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation, serves as a locus for a critique of his culture's increasing reliance on the scienti1c paradigms of Claude Bernard's physiology, and as a source of formal narrative innovation in his novels. The author 1rst explores the paradoxical hagiogr…
The Case against Andrei Siniavskii
The trial and conviction of Iulii Daniel' and Andrei Siniavskii in 1966 represent if not, unfortunately, a unique instance in modern history, then at least a very peculiar and striking example of way state punishes a writer's body for crimes committed by his literary text. Siniavskii received seven years of hard labor for his crime of slandering Soviet government. In contrast, in 1866, in one of Russia's first literary trials, writer A. S. Suvori…
Holy Foolishness
A Curse on Russia
ridrikh Gorenshtein was born in Kiev in 1932. His father was arrested in 1935, and died in a camp. His mother, who had unsuccessfully tried to avoid arrest herself, died shortly after being released from prison. Gorenshtein spent the war years in state-run children's homes and then was cared for by relatives. He published his first story in Iunost' in 1964, but from that year until 1989 none of his works was published in the former Soviet Union, …
Representations of the Demonic
Dostoevskii in Siberia
In "Muzhik Marei," which appeared in the February issue of Dnevnik pisatelia for 1876, Fedor Dostoevskii "remembers" an experience from his time in Siberia. During Easter week the drunken carousing of his fellow convicts (which, he writes, "tormented me nearly to the point of illness" "do bolezni isterzalo menia") had driven him out of the barracks into the yard. There he met the Polish prisoner, Miretskii, who said, "Je hais ces brigands" (22:46…
Music from a Speeding Train
This work explores the Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish-language authors in the same literary universe - one in which modernism, revolution, and socialist realism join Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity
FromSkandalonto Scandal
Ivan Karamazov articulates the philosophical problem of the limits of religion in his "Rebellion." In this article, Harriet Murav argues that, far from being an enemy of religion, Ivan gets to the heart of the problem of responding to the suffering of the other. Christ crucified is a scandalous temptation, according to St. Paul. Extending the logic of theskandalonto Ivan makes possible an alternative reading of his "Rebellion." The suffering of t…
Dostoevskii in Siberia
In "Muzhik Marei," which appeared in the February issue of Dnevnik pisatelia for 1876, Fedor Dostoevskii "remembers" an experience from his time in Siberia. During Easter week the drunken carousing of his fellow convicts (which, he writes, "tormented me nearly to the point of illness" "do bolezni isterzalo menia") had driven him out of the barracks into the yard. There he met the Polish prisoner, Miretskii, who said, "Je hais ces brigands" (22:46…
Violating the Canon
Violating the Canon" makes the case for an alternative Jewish and literary space in the context of Soviet war literature by comparing works by Vasilii Grossman, Il'ia Erenburg, and the Yiddish author Der Nister. In this article, Harriet Murav distinguishes the question of literary value from the question of identity and separates out the problem of determining the typicality or representativeness of a work from the problem of engaging the complex…
A Curse on Russia
ridrikh Gorenshtein was born in Kiev in 1932. His father was arrested in 1935, and died in a camp. His mother, who had unsuccessfully tried to avoid arrest herself, died shortly after being released from prison. Gorenshtein spent the war years in state-run children's homes and then was cared for by relatives. He published his first story in Iunost' in 1964, but from that year until 1989 none of his works was published in the former Soviet Union, …
Representations of the Demonic
Dostoevskii in Siberia
In "Muzhik Marei," which appeared in the February issue of Dnevnik pisatelia for 1876, Fedor Dostoevskii "remembers" an experience from his time in Siberia. During Easter week the drunken carousing of his fellow convicts (which, he writes, "tormented me nearly to the point of illness" "do bolezni isterzalo menia") had driven him out of the barracks into the yard. There he met the Polish prisoner, Miretskii, who said, "Je hais ces brigands" (22:46…
A Curse on Russia
ridrikh Gorenshtein was born in Kiev in 1932. His father was arrested in 1935, and died in a camp. His mother, who had unsuccessfully tried to avoid arrest herself, died shortly after being released from prison. Gorenshtein spent the war years in state-run children's homes and then was cared for by relatives. He published his first story in Iunost' in 1964, but from that year until 1989 none of his works was published in the former Soviet Union, …
Holy Foolishness
This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation, serves as a locus for a critique of his culture's increasing reliance on the scienti1c paradigms of Claude Bernard's physiology, and as a source of formal narrative innovation in his novels. The author 1rst explores the paradoxical hagiogr…
The Case against Andrei Siniavskii
The trial and conviction of Iulii Daniel' and Andrei Siniavskii in 1966 represent if not, unfortunately, a unique instance in modern history, then at least a very peculiar and striking example of way state punishes a writer's body for crimes committed by his literary text. Siniavskii received seven years of hard labor for his crime of slandering Soviet government. In contrast, in 1866, in one of Russia's first literary trials, writer A. S. Suvori…
Holy Foolishness
Modernism and Revolution
The period before 1917 was a brilliant one for Russian literature, marked by the innovations and experimentation of modernism. With the Bolshevik seizure of power, a parallel process of drastic social innovation and experimentation began. How did revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics relate to one another? Victor Erlich, an eminent authority on modern Slavic culture, takes up this question in Modernism and Revolution, a ma…
Sinyavsky's Trial
Reading Dostoevsky
FromSkandalonto Scandal
Ivan Karamazov articulates the philosophical problem of the limits of religion in his "Rebellion." In this article, Harriet Murav argues that, far from being an enemy of religion, Ivan gets to the heart of the problem of responding to the suffering of the other. Christ crucified is a scandalous temptation, according to St. Paul. Extending the logic of theskandalonto Ivan makes possible an alternative reading of his "Rebellion." The suffering of t…
Identity Theft
Harriet Murav's brief, challenging volume uses Avraam Uri Kovner (1842Kovner ( -1909) ) to examine an alternative model of Jewish acculturation in tsarist Russia.Kovner, a self-made (and re
The Juridical Unconscious
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth CenturyFelman, Shoshana Harriet Murav Harriet Murav Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 234–237. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Harriet Murav; …
Journeys beyond the Pale
Violating the Canon
Violating the Canon" makes the case for an alternative Jewish and literary space in the context of Soviet war literature by comparing works by Vasilii Grossman, Il'ia Erenburg, and the Yiddish author Der Nister. In this article, Harriet Murav distinguishes the question of literary value from the question of identity and separates out the problem of determining the typicality or representativeness of a work from the problem of engaging the complex…
Music from a Speeding Train
Music from a Speeding Train
This work explores the Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish-language authors in the same literary universe - one in which modernism, revolution, and socialist realism join Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity
Jews in the East European borderlands
Soviet Jews in World War II
This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic Waräóîas the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945, was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is among the first books to combine the study of Russian…
"Introduction to "The Afterlife of Photographs
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Judgments of David Bergelson
In this paper, I read the Yiddish author David Bergelson’s statements at his secret trial through the lens of his own earlier fiction about Soviet justice, especially his novel Judgment. I examine Bergelson’s self-fashioning as a Jewish writer and how he uses his own Jewish background as a justification for his failures as a Soviet person. I offer some contextualization of Bergelson’s statements in light of other trials of other writers both befo…
In Memoriam
wrote dozens of important books and articles about Soviet Jews. He was not a person of the mainstream. He did not like a propagandistic approach that rested on dichotomies; he always tried to see a more complex historical picture. In Israel during the Cold War, when the Jewish Section of the Communist Party was exclusively seen as a demonic force, you had to have been daring to say that matters were different. These were Jews with a national incl…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry
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
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