The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Abstract
This book explores the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture, focusing on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries—who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial—these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cau ... More
Keywords: Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian community, marginality, national cause, literary tradition, Jewish acculturation, Ukrainian–Jewish relations, integration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300137316 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300137316.001.0001 |
