Beschreibung:
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.
AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Poetry1. Hefker and Abandonment2. David Hofshteyn Listening3. Leyb Kvitko's Poetry of Abandonment4. EnfleshmentPart II: Documentation5. Chronicling a Hefker World: Itsik Kipnis's Months and Days6. Victor Shklovsky's Archive of Abandonment7. Counting8. ChildrenConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex