Kotik
Download Kotik full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Kotik ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Kotik Letaev
Author | : Andrey Bely |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780810116269 |
A Russian novel which looks at childhood, seen through the eyes of a boy from the age of three to five years, in the 1800s.
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
Author | : Yekhezkel Kotik |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2008-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814337333 |
The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture
Author | : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801483318 |
A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
Alien Connection
Author | : A.J. Houston |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-11-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781475963342 |
'Alien Connection', is situated several hundred years into the future and is about an electrical engineer, Arthur Barthol, and his adventures after he is recruited to install communications equipment on the first space station which will act as a meeting ground for humans and aliens from other worlds. His travels take him beyond the limits of human experience and understanding while encountering alien existence he could hardly have imagined.
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
Author | : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9027278423 |
This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of the contributions are original publications by present-day specialists in the field. This is a book which may benefit literary scholars as well as professional psychoanalysts.
Yiddish Transformed
Author | : Nathan Cohen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800739672 |
As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern society. Author Nathan Cohen explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as personal reflections of reading experiences.
The Look of Russian Literature
Author | : Gerald Janecek |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400852854 |
Gerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Andrey Bely
Author | : John E. Malmstad |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1501745271 |
No figure in turn-of-the-century Russia, John Malmstad asserts, better epitomizes the paradoxes of that era than Andrey Bely (1880–1934). Eulogized by Boris Pasternak as "the most remarkable writer of our age" and now widely regarded as the seminal figure in Russian modernism and as one of the major writers of this century, Bely subjected the received standards of truth and value in literature to a penetrating and radical critique. After a long period of suppression under the Stalinist regime, Bely has become the object of growing critical attention in both East and West. Originating in a symposium held in 1984 under the auspices of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on the fiftieth anniversary of Bely's death, this volume includes ten essays by established scholars of modern Russian literature, including leading Western specialists on Bely. The essays survey Bely's major works in all genres, summarize present research on Bely, reassess critical approaches, and offer fresh interpretations. Analytic summaries of primary works make the essays fully accessible to non-Slavist readers.