Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness The Post-Holocaust Plea for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister
Broken Heart / Broken Wholeness: The Post-Holocaust Plea for Jewish Reconstruction of the Soviet Yiddish Writer Der Nister

In the summer of 1947, three years before his death in a labor camp hospital, one of the most significant Soviet Yiddish writers Der Nister (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) made a trip from Moscow to Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East. He traveled there on a special mi...

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1. Verfasser: Kotlerman, Ber (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Schlagworte:
Der Nister > 1884-1950
HISTORY / Holocaust
Authors, Yiddish > Soviet Union > Biography
Jewish authors > Crimes against > Russia (Federation) > Birobidzhan
Jews > Persecutions > Soviet Union
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Birobidschan
Sowjetunion
Biografie
Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-Aug4
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-1043
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:In the summer of 1947, three years before his death in a labor camp hospital, one of the most significant Soviet Yiddish writers Der Nister (Pinkhas Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) made a trip from Moscow to Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East. He traveled there on a special migrant train, together with a thousand Holocaust survivors. The present study examines this journey as an original protest against the conformism of the majority of Soviet Jewish activists. In his travel notes, Der Nister described the train as the "modern Noah’s ark," heading "to put an end to the historical silliness." This rhetoric paraphrasing Nietzsche’s "historical sickness," challenged the Jewish history in the Diaspora, which "broke" the people's mythical "wholeness." Der Nister formulated his vision of a post-Holocaust Jewish reconstruction more clearly in his previously unknown notes ("Birobidzhan Manifesto"), the last that have reached us from Der Nister’s creative legacy, which are being discussed for the first time in this book. Without their own territory, he wrote, the Jews were like "a soul without a body or a body without a soul, and in either case, always a cripple." Records of the fabricated investigation case against the "anti-Soviet nationalist grouping in Birobidzhan" reveal details about Der Nister’s thoughts and real acts. Both the records and the manifesto are being published here for the first time
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (210 pages)
ISBN:9781618115317
DOI:10.1515/9781618115317

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