Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates Note on How to Use This Book General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature, by Maxim D. Shrayer Early Voices: 1800s-1850s Editor''s Introduction Leiba Nevakhovich (1776-1831) from Lament of the Daughter of Judah (1803) Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889) "The People" (1840) Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896) From An Answer to the Slav (1849; pub. 1911) Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869) From The Penal Recruit (1859) Seething Times: 1860s-1880s Editor''s Introduction Lev Levanda (1835-1888) From Seething Times (1860s; pub. 1871-73) Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885) "Childhood Sufferings" from Notes of a Jew (1863; pub. 1871-73) Rakhel Khin (1861-1928) From The Misfit (1881) Semyon Nadson (1862-1887) From "The Woman" (1883) "I grew up shunning you, O most degraded nation." (1885) On the Eve: 1890s-1910s Editor''s Introduction Ben-Ami (1854-1932) Preface to Collected Stories and Sketches (1898) David Aizman (1869-1922) "The Countrymen" (1902) Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927) From The Jews (1903) Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) "In Memory of Herzl" (1904) Sasha Cherny (1880-1932) "Judeophobes" (1909) S. An-sky (1863-1920) "The Book" (1910) Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) "Palestine" (1916) Sofia Parnok (1885-1933) "My anguish does the Lord not heed." (1913-22) "Hagar" (1913-22) "Not for safekeeping for awhile.
" (1913-22) Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918) "A Jewish Wedding" (1916) "Regimental Inspection" (1917) Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s Editor''s Introduction Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989) "Shields (and Candles)" (1922) Lev Lunts (1901-1924) "Native Land" (1922) Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)"Not my mother, but a Tula peasant woman." (1917; 1922) "In Moscow I was born. I never." (1923) Andrey Sobol (1888-1926) "The Count" (1922-23) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) "The Teacher''s Prophecy Concerning the Destinies of the Tribe of Judah" from The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples (1922) Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) From Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1923) Matvey Royzman (1896-1973) "Kol Nidrei" (1923) Mark Aldanov (1886-1957) "The Assassination of Uritsky" (1923) Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) "Judaic Chaos" from Noise of Time (1925) "One Alexander Herzovich." (1931) "Say, desert geometer, shaper." (1933) Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942) "Where''s Home?" (1925) Dovid Knut (1900-1955) "I, Dovid-Ari Ben Meir." (1925) "A Kishinev Burial" (1929) "The Land of Israel" (1938) Isaac Babel (1894-1940) "The Rabbi''s Son" (1925) "Awakening" (1931) Vera Inber (1890-1972) "The Nightingale and the Rose" (1925) Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969) "Encounter" (1927) Viktor Fink (1888-1973) "The Preachers" and "The New Culture" from Jews on the Land (1929) Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972) "R" (1929) Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934) "Origin"(1930) From February (1934) Mark Egart (1901-1956) From Scorched Land (1932) Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942) "The Prodigal Son Returns Home" (1930) by Ilf From The Little Golden Calf (1931) by Ilf and Petrov Raisa Blokh (1899-1943?) "A snatch of speech came floating on the air." (1932) "Remember, father would stand.
" (1933) War and Shoah: 1940s Editor''s Introduction Boris Yampolsky (1921-1972) "Mr. Dykhes and Others" from Country Fair (ca. 1940) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) "To the Jews" (1941) "Six Poems" (The January 1945 Novy mir cycle) Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968) "I Saw It"; "Kerch" (1942) Sofia Sofia Dubnova-Erlikh (1885-1986) Two Wartime Essays: "Shtetl" (1943); "Scorched Hearth" (1944) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) "The Hell of Treblinka" (1944) Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978) "Death Camp" (1945) Yury German (1910-1967) from Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Corps (1949) Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) "In the Lowlands" (1944) "Odessa" (1944) From Doctor Zhivago (1946-[1955]; pub. 1957) The Thaw, 1950s-1960s Editor''s Introduction Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) "These Abrám, Isák and Yákov." (1953; pub. 1989) "Of the Jews" (1952-56; pub. 1961) "Horses in the Ocean" (1956) "Prodigal Son" (1956) "Puny Jewish children." (1957-58; pub.
1989) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) From Life and Fate (1960; pub. 1980) Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) "Jewish graveyard near Leningrad." (1958; pub. 1965) "I''m not asking death for immortality." (ca. 1961; pub. 1992) Vladimir Britanishsky (1933-2015) "A German Girl" (1957-58; pub. 1993) Yuly Daniel (1925-1988) From This Is Moscow Speaking (1961) Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962) "Enemies" (1962) Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982) "Girls with golden eyes.
" (1960; pub. 1990s) "You''re mistaken." (1961; pub. 1990s) "It''s the end of our nation." (1962; pub. 1990s) "My Slavic language is Russian." (1963; pub. 1990s) "I''m Moyshe from Berdichev.
" (1963; pub. 1990s) "Eve, a civilized Jewess." (1964; pub. 1990s) Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s Editor''s Introduction Vassily Aksyonov (1932-2009) "Victory: A Story with Exaggerations" (1965) Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936) "When that teacher in Poland, so as not." (1966) "Letters" (1966) Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999) "In Memory of My Father" (1962; pub. 1999) "Psalm 3" (1965-66; pub. 1979) "Psalm 132 (133)" (1965-66; pub.
1988) "Psalm 136 (137)" (1965-66; pub. 1993) "Psalm 150" (1965-66; pub. 1993) "A Pole Rode" (1985; pub. 1992) Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003) "Khaim" (1973; pub. 1979) Yuri Karabchievsky (1938-1992) From Life of Aleksandr Zilber (1974-75) Inna Lisnianskaia (1928-2014) "My father, a military doctor." (1975; pub. 1980) "An Incident" (1981; pub. 1983) Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) "Let''s cross out the Pale.
" (1970s; pub. 1985) "The rabbis came down to the valley." (before 1977; pub. 1989) Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998) From Heavy Sand (1975-77; pub. 1978) Yuri Trifonov (1925-1981) "A Visit with Marc Chagall" (1980) from The Overturned House Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980) From Only My Heart Was Broken (1980) Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935) "For the Last Time" (1987) Sara Pogreb (b. 1921) "I''m going to see my grandparents. The cart.
" (1986) "I''m bidding farewell to the slush." (1989) Izrail Metter (1909-1996) From Pedigree (1980s) Aleksandr Mezhirov (1923-2009) From Blizzard (1986-2000) Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005) A Journey to Kashgar (1973-1989) Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947) From The Confession of a Jew (1993) Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943) "Genele the Purse Lady" (1993) The Jewish Exodus: 1970s-1990s Editor''s Introduction Lev Mak (b. 1937 [1939] "A Farewell to Russia" (1974) "August in Odessa" (1974) Boris Khazanov (b. 1928) From The King''s Hour (1968-69; pub. 1976; 1980) Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999) "Afánta-Utóma" ("Fantasia-Judaica") from Glints of the Wave (late 1960s-1970s; pub. 1978) David Markish (b.
1938) "The Appearance of Prophet Elijah, 1714" from The Jesters (1981-82) Michael Kreps (1940-1994) "Cat with a Yellow Star" (1980s) "Call of the Ancestors" (1980s) Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936) "Sarah and Rooster" (1988) Ruth Zernova (1919-2004) "All Vows" (1988) David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936) "Chagall''s Self-Portrait with Wife" (1975; pub. 1990) "My Slavic Soul" (1975; pub. 1990) "Villa Borghese" (1987-90) "Hände Hoch!" (1999) Marina Temkina (b. 1948) "1995: Happy New Year" (1995) Dina Rubina (b. 1953) From Here Comes the Messiah (1996) Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002) "The Arrest of an Antisemite" (1998) Anna Gorenko (1972-1999) "The Golem" (1997) "Translating from the European" (1999) An Outline of Jewish-Russian History by John D. Klier Bibliography of Primary Sources Index of Authors Index of Translators Index of Names, Places and Works About the Editor.