The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa’s German-language novel<i>Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt</i>(All Russians Love Birch Trees)

Taberner, Stuart

doi:10.1080/13507486.2016.1203872

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

2016

DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2016.1203872

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The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa’s German-language novelDer Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt(All Russians Love Birch Trees)

Stuart Taberner

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“… 4. Stuart Taberner (2016) argues that it is the memory of the Holocaust that enables Masha to forge a secular Jewish identity and identify with the suffering of others (p. 923). …”

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Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective

Dudnik

2022

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This comparative essay explores the relationship between memory and migration/integration through the example of two recent literary texts—the German-language novel All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa and a story from the Russian-language “novel in voices” Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich—that portray personal memory of ethnic violence in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1990. In Grjasnowa’s novel, the protagonist’s traumatic memories cannot be integrated into German memory culture, despite the fact that she, as a legal immigrant, enjoys the status of political subject. In reversed dynamics, Alexievich’s protagonist, who remains vulnerable on the political and social level, has been able to articulate her trauma in the presence of the empathetic listener—the implied author. Analyzing narrative devices that aim to engage the reader as a respondent to the characters’ suffering during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the 1990s and after their arrival in Germany and Russia, this essay identifies a call for a holistic integration of migrants on both the civic level and the level of memory through the medium of secondary witnessing.

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“… 4. Stuart Taberner (2016) argues that it is the memory of the Holocaust that enables Masha to forge a secular Jewish identity and identify with the suffering of others (p. 923). …”

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Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective

Dudnik

2022

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Worldliness, Jewish Purpose, and the Non-Jewish Jewish Narrator in Olga Grjasnowa’sDer verlorene Sohn(2020)

Taberner

2022

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies

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The worldliness that characterizes the literary fiction of the self-identified Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa can be understood as an expression of “Jewish purpose” (Adam Sutcliffe), entailing solidarity with other persecuted minorities rooted in the Jewish experience, and especially Jewish suffering. This article focuses on Grjasnowa’s Der verlorene Sohn, in which a Muslim child is taken from his family and brought to St. Petersburg. The article explores the depiction of Islamophobia in Imperial Russia and how seemingly extraneous allusions to anti-Semitism in fact underpin a broader critique of the Enlightenment’s unfulfilled promise. Subsequently, it is argued that the narrator can be construed as a “non-Jewish Jew” (Isaac Deutscher), with a Jewish identity that is expressed through social and ethical commitment rather than belief. Finally, the article explores tensions inherent in Jewish purpose—including the perennial worry that Jews may be required to elide their particularity for the sake of universal values.

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Memories of German Wartime Suffering: Russian Migrant Nellja Veremej’sBerlin liegt im Ostenin Context

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2018

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The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa’s German-language novelDer Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt(All Russians Love Birch Trees)

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective

Witnessing migrant memories through literature: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh in transnational perspective

Worldliness, Jewish Purpose, and the Non-Jewish Jewish Narrator in Olga Grjasnowa’sDer verlorene Sohn(2020)

Memories of German Wartime Suffering: Russian Migrant Nellja Veremej’sBerlin liegt im Ostenin Context

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