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Marat Grinberg

7 months

Gary Saul Morson @mosaicmag : "Marat Grinberg conveys with special power the way in which Soviet Jews embraced the Russian literary tradition... They were torn between reverence for... Russian classics and irritation at the anti-Semitism... found there..."

The Jews Who Guard Dostoevsky

Many Dostoevsky scholars have been Jews, perhaps because the anti-Semitic writer needed to be seen as theirs—as almost Jewish in his concerns.

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Marat Grinberg

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9 months

An interview with me about The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @NewBooksNetwork with a shout out to @MaximDShrayer @shternsh thank you to @Amber_N_Nickell for her excellent questions @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines"...

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2 years

@JewishWonk @ZelenskyyUa @FareedZakaria Soviet Jews were not a uniform group by any means, but there certainly was a profound awareness on their part of the Holocaust and how to remember it. This was reflected in the books they read and the monuments they put up on the sites of massacres.

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Marat Grinberg

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In a wonderful New Year surprise The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf has arrived! Thanks to @BrandeisPress and @TauberBrandeis for doing such a great job with it. I’m available for talks and presentations about the book, of course.

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4 years

Last summer in St. Petersburg reading Brodsky’s “The Jewish Cemetery” - he would have turned 80 today.

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5 years

In 1991 or 92 there was a Hanukkah celebration in my hometown in Ukraine. Part of it was a quiz in Judaism, which I, who began to read all things Jewish, answered all correct with gusto. The prize was this menorah which we brought to America and have been lighting ever since.

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Marat Grinberg

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8 months

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf in good company @aseeestudies in Philadelphia @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

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2 years

My reflection on and translation of Jabotinsky's deeply relevant "The Lesson of Shevchenko's Jubilee" @tabletmag #Ukraine

The Highest Flights of the Ukrainian Soul

A translation of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's prescient essay on the life-affirming desire for distinctiveness

www.tabletmag.com

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

2 years

Very happy to announce that my new book, The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines, will be out this March from @BrandeisPress in their Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry and can be pre-ordered now. #SovietJewishBookshelf

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5 years

My piece on Friedrich Gorenstein and the long awaited translation of his novel Redemption

Mosaic

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5 years

In the face of Soviet demands for assimilation, Friedrich Gorenstein wrote with an unapologetically Jewish voice

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7 months

Review of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf in @JewishJournal : "...mandatory for students of Soviet and Jewish history.... for the larger Jewish public for whom Soviet Jews remain a paradox... In the Soviet context, the “People of the Book” became the “People of the Bookshelf."

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Marat Grinberg

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The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @BrandeisPress family @jewish_studies in San Francisco @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

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4 years

From the depth of the Soviet Jewish bookshelf- the only officially available Sidur in the Soviet Union which also included the Passover Haggadah. #Passover2020

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@MaratGrinberg

9 months

My interview about The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @Amber_N_Nickell @NewBooksNetwork is an Editor’s pick @mosaicmag where I published my pieces on some of the contents of the shelf earlier @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

The Books That Kept Soviet Jews Connected to Their Jewish Past

Reading between the lines.

mosaicmagazine.com

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

1 year

Shared with Public Today is my grandfather's, Mikhail Goldis's, birthday. He would have turned 97. I'm translating and editing now his memoirs about his years as a detective/attorney in Soviet Ukraine, which will be published in the new series at ASP, Immigrant Worlds and Texts.

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Today marks the 90th birthday of Yuri Trifonov, whose understated novels of the 1960s and 70s epitomized writing and reading between the lines. They were the "signs of the times," as I discuss in my The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @BrandeisPress @ChicagoDistrib .

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Marat Grinberg

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4 years

My piece on hate in Soviet Jewish writing of WWII- Ehrenburg, Slutsky, Satunovsky - in the new “hate” issue of AJS Perspectives @jewish_studies

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3 years

@ds228 @sovietvisuals @YelenaFurman @bowlga As you can see, I’m part of the club

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@MaratGrinberg

7 months

My essay @mosaicmag in response to Gary Saul Morson about Dostoevsky and the Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, from Jabotinsky to Tsypkin to Gorenstein, and why all of this has special relevance for today. @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

The Special Sway Dostoevsky Held over Soviet Jewish Minds

Why Russian Jews believed that reading Dostoevsky would legitimize their place in Russian culture and protect them from accusations of being interlopers.

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

3 years

Delighted to have contributed to this outstanding collection @BloomsburyPub edited by @ndabrams and I.Q. Hunter with an essay on Kubrick and Jewishness

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Marat Grinberg

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1 year

I will be speaking about my new project about Jewishness in Soviet and East European science fiction beyond the Strugatskys @DCRES_Harvard on Wednesday, April 19th, 12:30pm Eastern time. Hope you can register and attend!

The Strugatskys and Beyond: The Secret Jewish Language of Soviet Era Science Fiction

The focus of this talk is the surprising, fascinating, and central, both in plain sight and masked, place of Jewishness in Soviet science fiction texts and their authors’ biographies.

daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Marat Grinberg

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3 years

Today marks the 35th anniversary of Boris Slutsky's death, the poet I spent a great deal of my scholarly life thinking and writing about @LAReviewofBooks

A Jeremiah of “Limping Iambs”: On Boris Slutsky’s Centennial | Los Angeles Review of Books

Marat Grinberg celebrates the centennial of the birth of Boris Slutsky, “arguably the most misunderstood and idiosyncratic of 20th-century poets.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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@MaratGrinberg

7 months

From @NadyaWilliams81 : "I appreciated Marat Grinberg’s essay in Mosaic Magazine, “The Special Sway Dostoevsky Held Over Soviet Jewish Minds”... Now I’m all the more resolved to read Marat’s recent book, The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, sometime this year." @BrandeisPress @mosaicmag

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Marat Grinberg

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7 months

From my recent piece @mosaicmag : "By reading [Dostoevsky Soviet Jews] were able... to reveal that literary greatness can coexist with monstrous ideas that, once fulfilled, leave in their wake blood and ruins.

The Special Sway Dostoevsky Held over Soviet Jewish Minds

Why Russian Jews believed that reading Dostoevsky would legitimize their place in Russian culture and protect them from accusations of being interlopers.

mosaicmagazine.com

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

2 years

So many people, including my students, tuned in and asked questions yesterday. At the beginning I spoke about Jabotinsky and his essay, "The Lesson of Shevchenko's Jubilee," which provides a deeply powerful definition of Ukrainian national idea.

Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine, A Conversation with Marat...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has everyone confused and seeking more clarity. Marat Grinberg, Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College...

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

6 months

Another inspiring session in the course on Jewishness and sci fi this week: discussing Rafail Nudelman and Ariadna Gromova, the translators of Lem and creators of Soviet Jewish and Holocaust science fiction. Next week onto the Strugatsky brothers! @Roundtable_92NY

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7 months

Looking forward to starting my course on “Reading Jewish Identity In Science Fiction” @Roundtable_92NY from Stanislaw Lem to P. K. Dick in two weeks!

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2 years

@JewishWonk @ZelenskyyUa @FareedZakaria One needs to distinguish between official Soviet propaganda and how Soviet Jews went around it and worked privately against it. Zelensky’s family is no exception. His political rhetoric and what it relies on is another matter.

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@MaratGrinberg

1 year

Just saw that @JoyceCarolOates quoted from my piece on the Strugatskys @mosaicmag from a few years back. They’re, of course, a big part of my Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib and my new project on Soviet sci fi.

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

6 years

"... a particularly Soviet and Russian dilemma—the fraught relationship between the intelligentsia and dictatorial power—is intertwined with a quintessential crisis of Jewish diaspora existence, embodied for the Strugatskys in the phenomenon of the “court Jew.”

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5 years

A fascinating piece on Peter Beagle and the subterranean Jewishness of his fantasy universe @weingradmichael . Beagle’s unicorns in the ocean resemble Boris Slutsky’s horses drowning, which also has a Jewish subtext.

The Best Unicorn - Jewish Review of Books

Peter S. Beagle's classic fantasy novel The Last Unicorn perhaps betrays its Jewish bent with "idiosyncratic yet archetypal characters such as the hapless magician Schmendrick."

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Marat Grinberg

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9 months

Speaking about the fascinating Ariadna Gromova, Soviet science fiction and the Holocaust at the excellent JAHLIT symposium with @MaximDShrayer @DrMonicaOsborne

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Marat Grinberg

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1 year

I’ll be discussing and reading from The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf at the wonderful Daedalus Bookstore in Portland on March 2nd at 6:30pm. @ChicagoDistrib @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis

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1 year

Cool to come upon The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf at the great Powell’s bookstore @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib @Powells

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2 years

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf is #1 release in History and Criticism of Russian and Soviet Literature @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @Roundtable_92NY

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1 year

Thinking about the destruction in Odesa, here’s again my thoughts about and translation of the great Odesan Zeev Jabotinsky’s prescient essay about Ukrainian national idea and the catastrophic consequences of devaluing it @tabletmag

The Highest Flights of the Ukrainian Soul

A translation of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's prescient essay on the life-affirming desire for distinctiveness

www.tabletmag.com

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Marat Grinberg

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4 years

Very glad to be part of this excellent new collection with an essay on Friedrich Gorenstein.

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4 years

@kaggsy59 @ds228 @neglectedbooks @thecommonbreath @YelenaFurman @bowlga Yes, of course! I’m writing about him in my Soviet Jewish bookshelf book. He was a cult author - my grandmother wrote a fan letter to him in the 60s. Not Jewish, but has a lot of fascinating Jewish material. Unjustly forgotten, I think.

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4 years

Reading Feuchtwanger in Russian and speaking a bit about my Soviet Jewish bookshelf project 2/2

International Feuchtwanger Society

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4 years

Marat Grinberg @MaratGrinberg , Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College and a specialist on Russian Jewish literature & film, reads from The Jewess of Toledo (The Spanish Ballad/Raquel). 2/2 #Feuchtwanger #FeuchtwangerinTimesofCrisis

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Marat Grinberg

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1 year

Wonderful intimate reading of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf at Daedalus Books yesterday. Great questions and discussion. Looking forward to another reading @annieblooms on March 16 7-8pm. @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib

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1 year

I’m very excited about teaching this mini-course on Yiddish cinema starting in two weeks @Roundtable_92NY Register and spread the word! @mosaicmag

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4 years

@bowlga @kaggsy59 @ds228 @neglectedbooks @thecommonbreath @YelenaFurman Perhaps. I think the comparison with Bunin speaks to Paustovsky's subtleties as a writer and also how un-Soviet he seemed to the intelligentsia. I'd be interested to hear what other "Jewish" books (or books perceived as Jewish) were in your parents' bookcase.

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4 years

Putting together a syllabus for my course on film adaptation

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1 year

From the review of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @Forverts : "The worldview of Soviet Jewish readers was universal, but they were singularly proud of their Jewishness. The Soviet-Jewish identity is truly made up of these two parts." @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis

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אין זײַן בוך שרײַבט מאַראַט גרינבערג אַז די סאָװעטישע ייִדן זײַנען געװאָרן שטאַרק געניט בײַם לייענען צװישן די שורות און זיך געלערנט וועגן ייִדישקייט פֿון כּלערליי ביכער. @MaratGrinberg

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1 year

Great audience and questions at the reading and discussion of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @annieblooms last night. Inspiring! @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib

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5 years

A fascinating find at a Tel Aviv Russian bookstore: an anthology of Russian translations of Israeli women’s poetry with an inscription by its editor, A. Belov, a prominent translator and scholar of Hebrew literature in the USSR. #SovietJewishBookshelf

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2 years

@ds228 @zeltserman I have a long section about it in my Soviet Jewish Bookshelf book which will be out this fall.

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3 years

What a pleasure speaking at a conference on Soviet Jewish culture @rggu_ru in Moscow. Мое выступление на прекрасной конференции о советской еврейской культуре, организованной в @rggu_ru . Очень интересное обсуждение моей советской еврейской книжной полки.

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@IzaTabaro @jdforward Agree 100%, but Soviet anti-Zionism/Semitism was coerced by the state and many people, Jews and non-Jews, saw it for what it was. With the progressive left it’s genuine and voluntary.

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5 years

@chick_in_kiev The ignorance of this statement is staggering. Bialik had a deeply pluralistic and inclusive view of Jewish culture, its secular and religious elements, Hebrew and Yiddish. Clearly @chick_in_kiev didn't have her facts checked.

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2 years

Excited about teaching the second session of this mini-course on Jewishness and Soviet/East European sci fi @Roundtable_92NY next Friday! We'll continue exploring the Strugatskys and other authors - Ilya Varshavsky, Gennady Gor and, of course, Stanislaw Lem.

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@ayidindixieland This crosses all boundaries and should lead to a serious response from Congress

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11 months

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf reviewed @LAReviewofBooks by @YelenaFurman @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis

Salvaging a Soviet Jewish Literary Culture: On Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf” | Los...

Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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4 years

@bowlga @kaggsy59 @ds228 @neglectedbooks @thecommonbreath @YelenaFurman Thank you for a great discussion, everyone! The book is now under contract at Brandeis University Press. If only I had time to write in between my kids running around and dreading teaching on zoom in the fall.

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2 years

A beautiful and heartfelt piece from @MaximDShrayer giving voice to the dread I've also been feeling over this horror brought to Ukraine. It talks of Kamenets-Podolsky, an ancient Ukrainian city where I was born. This just hits too close to home.

The War in Ukraine: Thoughts from a Jewish Ex-Soviet

This was the land of both my grandfathers and my maternal grandmother, and our family history was rooted in this land and its past.

jewishjournal.com

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5 years

Speaking on Yan Satunovsky, a remarkable Soviet underground poet, at a fascinating conference @yadvashem on the Holocaust in Soviet public and literary discourse under Stalin

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4 years

@ds228 @kaggsy59 @YelenaFurman @SteveHolt3 @Unwise_Trousers @alokranj @SCyFlynn Yuri German

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2 years

@ds228 Very exciting! And great that it’s coinciding with my The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @BrandeisPress that has a chapter on the Strugatskys and why they were valorized by the Soviet Jewish reader.

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Marat Grinberg

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10 months

Wonderful speaking about The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf at Tulane University Jewish studies department yesterday. Great to visit this campus where there’s a lot of support for Jewish students and Israel. @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis

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2 years

Very excited about teaching this class @Roundtable_92NY on Soviet science fiction and why Jews and Jewishness played such a crucial role in it. We'll talk about the Strugatskys, Varshavsky, Gor, Lem, and other fascinating figures.

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2 years

Nice to see The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis in the list of bestsellers in the History of Books category @amazon

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3 years

@MatRyanELATeach The only Soviet edition of Kafka

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1 year

Looking forward to speaking about The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf this Wednesday to @JewishLibraries @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib

Assn JewishLibraries

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1 year

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf with Dr. Marat Grinberg Wed Jul 19 10am PT / 1pm ET Join Dr. Marat Grinberg for a talk based on his book The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines. Open to AJL members only. Register:

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5 years

A fascinating review by @weingradmichael of a deeply disturbing sci fi novel

Michael Weingrad

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"The result is a novel in which anti-Semitism is a natural and logical response to the Jews. . . .These particular Jews, after all, will replace us." My review of a troubling novel. @mosaicmag

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Very excited about teaching the first session of my 3-part course on The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @Roundtable_92NY on Friday! There's still time to register! @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib

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2 years

מורינו רבינו #jabotinsky

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6 months

@YelenaFurman @grbernst @bowlga @BergstromBooks @ReemK10 Thank you @YelenaFurman !

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7 years

Introducing this smart and nuanced film tonight

PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow

@pam_cut

7 years

Tonight at #PJFF25 - NATASHA details a forbidden summer romance between a suburban Toronto teen and his cousin:

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3 years

Looking forward to teaching next year my favorite course on Soviet sci-fi and a new course on global Jewish and Holocaust cinema.

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6 months

Wonderful first session of the course on Jewishness and sci fi yesterday, concentrating on Stanislaw Lem, his history, traumas, and works. Next week on to his Soviet translators and commentators - Rafail Nudelman and Ariadna Gromova @Roundtable_92NY

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1 year

Discussing Varshavsky, Gor and the Strugatskys @Roundtable_92NY today! Their secret Jewish language and memories. Looking forward to the course on The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf @Roundtable_92NY in March and April! @BrandeisPress

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2 years

Back home in Portland after an intellectually intense, stimulating and rewarding time at Brandeis and in Israel with the Schusterman summer institute. Lots to digest and reflect on and, of course, miss Israel @Israel_Studies

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4 years

@bowlga @kaggsy59 @ds228 @neglectedbooks @thecommonbreath @YelenaFurman Yes! Ivanhoe was big in my family also! Interestingly, we didn’t have Brushtein, but as a researcher I now understand that it was exception to the rule.

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Today marks the 5th anniversary of Boris Strugatsky's death. To commemorate the occasion, here's a re-post of my review of his and his older brother's magnificent and prescient The Doomed City -

The Soviet Matrix: On the Strugatsky Brothers’ “The Doomed City” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Marat Grinberg on the long-awaited translation of the Strugatsky Brothers' "The Doomed City."

lareviewofbooks.org

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5 years

Looking forward to speaking about "reading between the lines" and Soviet Jewish scholarship of 1960s and 70s #ASEEES2019 on Tuesday, 8am, LB2, Salon 10

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6 years

Alexander Askoldov's obituary in today's New York Times with my contribution

Daily Flick NY

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@russiabeyond @KinoPravdaBlog @ral_morley @KinoKlassika @RusArtCulture Via #NYT : Alexander Askoldov, Whose Banned Film Was Found, Dies at 85 - “The Commissar,” Banned By Censors In Late 1960s For Sympathetic Portrayal Of Jewish Family, Was Based On Vasily Grossman Short Story “In the Town of Berdichev” #SovietCinema #DFNYBio

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Russian Jew drinking "Ashkenazi a Russian Jew" @RayRestaurant

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@IzaTabaro @StudiesZionist Excellent conversation! And thank you for a shout out to my book.

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4 years

@ds228 @FitzcarraldoEds Didn’t realize it was already translated into English. Definitely worth looking at. Very sebaldian. I’d be interested to hear what you make of it @ds228

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2 years

The Old Fortress in my native city Kamianets-Podilskyi, painted by Dmytro Bryk (1921-1992), a wonderful artist and my mom's teacher in her childhood and youth.

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This is a Soviet cartoon from the 70s or 80s. The idea and the aesthetic are the same, as in the NY Times. If someone told me when we were coming to the US that here Zionism would be a dirty word and Jews would be shot in synagogues, I would have laughed in their face.

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2 years

At the grave of Aleksandr Penn in Tel Aviv, a major figure in my Soviet Jewish Bookshelf forthcoming book.

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9 months

From Charles Reznikoff’s “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays”:

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5 years

This is UNC Chapel Hill - the audience being jubilant listening to vile and unabashed antisemitism - "you look beautifully antisemitic" -

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3 years

An amazing gift for the end of the school year - I. B. Singer’s Satan in Goray signed by the master himself. Reading it at JTS with David Roskies years ago made me who I’m today. Singer’s warning about radical ideologies amongst Jews seems more timely than ever.

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@yudapearl @RabbiWolpe Bravo to my JTS professor @RabbiWolpe !

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2 years

So proud of my boy who was was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah last Shabbat.

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3 years

@bowlga @YelenaFurman @ds228 @JZarankin Let's just say we agree on pretty much nothing when it comes to Israel and many other matters.

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4 years

Reading Feuchtwanger in Russian and speaking a bit about my Soviet Jewish bookshelf project 1/2

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Marat Grinberg

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1 year

Great fun speaking about The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf at Boston College. Thank you to @MaximDShrayer for inviting me. @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @ChicagoDistrib

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Its Authors and Readers, by Marat...

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Its Authors and Readers, a lecture by Marat Grinberg (Reed College). Moderated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College). 20 April 20...

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

4 years

@ds228 @beyond_epilogue One of my most memorable experiences is reading his Joseph and his Brothers (in Russian translation) when I was in college. I’m thinking about it now in relation to the Soviet Jewish bookshelf project.

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

1 year

It is a fascinating text which gives a rich detailed snapshot of Soviet Ukraine after the war, the workings of a brilliant detective's mind, and what it took for a Soviet Jew to survive in the halls of Soviet power. @MaximDShrayer @ASP_Boston

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

3 years

@ds228 @bowlga @JZarankin @YelenaFurman I’m afraid I cannot imagine myself writing for this publication

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

5 years

@zeltserman To an extent. My grandmother made what she called “zapekanka” out of farmer’s cheese, raisins and apples. Delicious! And it is similar to a kugel. Also “babka” out of matza is kind of a kugle.

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

2 years

Discussing the incomparable Cléo from 5 to 7 of Agnes Varda in my Film Studies class today @Reed_College_

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

7 months

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf starts 2024 in very good company @BrandeisPress @TauberBrandeis @UChicagoPress

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

6 years

Pawlikowski's "Cold War" is a nuanced sombre film, evocative at times of Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia" and at times of Soviet films of the Thaw, such as Khutsiev's "July Rain." A bit too melodramatic and too beautiful, it often strikes the right note.

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

4 years

In the spirit of Halloween, my piece on the Israeli vampire series Juda and its cinematic and literary intertexts @tabletmag

‘Juda’ and Its Predecessors

When David Ben-Gurion reportedly said that Israel would become a normal state once it had its “prostitutes and thieves,” he should have also added “and vampires.” The Israeli series Juda, which...

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

5 years

Did my last HUM lecture of the semester - on Du Bois and his essay on the Warsaw ghetto, which he visited in 1949. I linked it to Ellison's Invisible Man, which our students are reading now, and its few, but very rich allusions to the Holocaust.

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Marat Grinberg

@MaratGrinberg

7 months

@bowlga @grbernst @BergstromBooks @ReemK10 @YelenaFurman I discuss Apt, who was a brilliant translator of Mann and the Hebrew Bible, in my book. He certainly knew and understood more than he permitted himself to say in his biography of Mann. And there’s quite a bit more about Mann and Joseph and his Brothers in my book as well.

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