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L. Fried. 1988. p. 410. Shaked shows how for American Jewish writers—Malamud, Bellow and especially Philip Roth—their sense of dual identity, which was still a tragedy for German writers, changed into something they took advantage of. THE CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN-JEWISH LITERATURE 21 The basic idea of dual cultural bond, or as Kaplan’s book put it, “dual affiliation” or “double civilization,”49 or “living in two civilizations” was raised already by research done in the United States. “The vicissitudes of history have brought it about that the average human being has to draw upon two civilizations to obtain all those values which he requires for his self-realization as a human being.
Because of the anti-Jewish mood prevailing in Odessa, the cultural centre of Russian Jews shifted to St. Petersburg from 1871 on. That was when the series of Evreiskaia Biblioteka was launched, publishing the best of Russian-Jewish literature in 10 volumes until 1903. No other RussianJewish periodical functioned in the seventies. 6 The writers of the first Russian-Jewish literary journals were entering into the context of Russian literary tradition, but were doing so while keeping their Jewish identity; for them, writing in Russian, along with the objectives of assimilation, also implied the promise of absorption into the literature of a great nation.
The Jews in Russia. The Struggle for Emancipation, Vol. I: 1772–1880, 1944; Vol. II: 1881–1917, 1951, 2nd edition, 2 volumes in one, with a new foreword by A. : Ocherki vremion i sobytii iz istorii rossiiskikh evreev, Part 2: 1772–1882 gody, 1990; Part 3: 1882–1920 gody, 1944. 38 IN A MAELSTROM ally thinking about the position of Jews in Russia took two generations to emerge, and when it did, it found itself faced with a doubly difficult situation: they represented a “foreign body” in a society which was itself sick and yearned for reforms.