Inventing tradition. Modern Russian-Jewish literature. Smol K.

How does literature treat the Jewish tradition after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and the official (gender) prohibition of Jewry under communism? The process of “re--wrapping traditions” begins among the Late Soviet Jewish underwriting of the 1960-1970s and continues, as the prose of the 2000-2010s shows, to the present moment. It is explained by the fact that Jewish literature is created for the reader of the “post -human” era when knowledge of Jewry and Judaism is transmitted and accepted not from living media of tradition, but from books, paintings, films, museums and popular culture. Such “sapestoric” knowledge, however, is the result of not only political disasters, official oblivion and dictatorship, but also secularization, cultural resounding of traditions inherent in the era (post) of modernity. It connects the reconstruction with myth-making, a cultural translation with the practice of creating a secondary-culturally mediated-collective “memories”, a scientist commentary with folklorization.

Placing Russian-Jewish literature in the general macrocultural framework of the era, the author turns to the theory of humanitarian thought The last decades: cultural semiotics of Yuri Lotman and Boris Uspensky, work on the myth of Mirchi Eliade, the geopoestics of Kenneth White, the theories of the cultural memory of Aleida and Jan Assman, the post -mammar of Marianne Hirsch, postcolonial and post -Perman research, as well as the heritage of poststructuralism. Claudia Smola is a philologist and culturologist, professor, head of the Department of Slavic literature at Dresden University (Germany).