Mandel'shtam, Osip

Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century. It asks: what happens when Jewishness enters the Russian literary tradition? And how does Jewishne…

The Ghost of Judaism: Reading Russian Literature after Levinas is a religious and philosophical treatment of Osip Mandelstam, Isaak Babel, and particularly Fyodor Dostoevsky, using the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, the Russian-born Franco-Jewish philosopher of radical ethics, as …