Identity Theft The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner |
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| Author:
| Murav, Harriet |
| Series title: | Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-3290-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $80.00 |
Book Description:
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This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal who lived at the end of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of Russo-Jewish identity in the modern period and of larger questions of hybridity and performativity.
This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal who lived at the end of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of Russo-Jewish identity in the modern period and of larger questions of hybridity and performativity.