Cover; Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction : Jewish women writers in the Soviet Union and the present study; 1. Literature and the political regime in Russia; 2. Alexandra Brushtein (1884-1968): The tears behind the smiles; 3. Elizaveta Polonskaia (1890-1969): A concealed storm of emotion; 4. Raisa Bloch (1899-1943): A genius unaware of her talent; 5. Hanna Levina (1900-1969): A Jewish communist fighter; 6. Ol'ga Ziv (1904-1963): An unknown Jewish author; 7. Yulia Neiman (1907-1994): Brilliant philosopher and poetess
8. Rakhil' Baumvol' (1914-2000): The joy of creativity and motherhood9. Margarita Aliger (1915-1992): A Soviet poetess devoted to Stalin; 10. Sarah Levina-Kul'neva (1920-??): Love story in the era of Stalinist prosecutions; 11. Sarah Pogreb (b. 1921): The history of silence; 12. Zinaida Mirkina (b. 1926): Suffering as a path toward faith; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author's literary output, and an assessment of each author's often conflicted view of her ""feminine self"" and of her ""Jewish self"". At a time when the large Jewish population which lived within the Soviet Union was threatened under Stalin's prosecutions the book provides highly-informative insights into
