Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew - Yale Scholarship

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The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew

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Like many other Ukrainians and Jews, communists or otherwise, Kulyk spent some years as a young man in the new world, writing enthusiastically of a "Volhynia guerilla" aiding to liberate British Columbia and even bringing Jewish-Ukrainian Odessa culture to "pedantic Halifax" Kulyk's works, not unusually for the time as Kenneth Moss's Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution Harvard University Press, has shown, brought together internationalism, Jewish identity, and a passion for the Bolshevik revolution.

Unlike most of Moss's heroes, however, Kulyk embraced Ukrainian culture and patriotism and - like so many other Ukrainian communists and patriots, the system he embraced devoured him. Raisa Troianker, a bit over a decade younger than Kulyk, began life in Ukraine, ended it in Murmansk above the Arctic Circle, and in between wrote poetry initially in Ukrainian but after the age of twenty-one, when she moved to Leningrad, in Russian , earning a place in the Ukrainian cultural pantheon mainly for her erotic poetry.

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Unlike their East European contemporaries who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial, these individuals e This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. 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 cause.

Along the way, he challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Hardcover , pages.

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