Published: 2022-06-01

The Jewish themes by Vasily Grossman (In the Town of Berdichev, 1934)

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Abstract

The prewar short story by Vasily Grossman is the starting point for emerging and determining the
parameters as well as hierarchically well-ordered elements which due to their specificity should be interpreted as the typical ones for the Jewish community. This community existed in the time of the Polish-Bolshevik War and during the civil war and afterwards. The time (the era) is very essential in the story as the everyday life of the Jewish community in the Ukraine. The scheme of the literary work is very specific as it shows the nuances of the Jewish-Russian spoken language, the attitude of the community members towards the large offspring, family as well as the heart of home. The aforesaid story also describes the typical situations and places such as the street, the market-square, and a noisy street crowd. In the course of the story the examples of the Jewish behaviour are described as they are being emerged. These examples are not of accidental character and at the same time they present identificational/iconic features. These features are classified into the topical parameters and they also create the modelling system which is the key point. This system is presented in the semantic units which are similar to the conceptual “utterances”, which are the projections of the knowledge of their nature.

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Czerwiński, Piotr. 2022. “The Jewish Themes by Vasily Grossman (In the Town of Berdichev, 1934)”. Iudaica Russica, no. 1(8) (June):1-24. https://doi.org/10.31261/IR.2022.08.07.

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No. 1(8) (2022)
Published: 2022-06-30


ISSN: 2657-4861
eISSN: 2657-8352
Ikona DOI 10.31261/IR

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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