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Zakhari Mirkin, fils d'un industriel juif de Pétersbourg, a rompu avec son milieu d'origine. De retour en Russie, il est le témoin déchiré des deux révolutions de 1917. Le troisième et dernier volet d'une fresque en 3 volumes, chef-d'œuvre du " Zola yiddish ", enfin disponible au format poche.
Préface de Rachel Erthel
Zakhari Mirkin, jeune bourgeois déjudaïsé, a fui les salons de Pétersbourg pour le " royaume des gueux " : les villes juives de Pologne, où bouillonnent les idéaux du sionisme et de la révolte. Acquis aux idées nouvelles, il ne songe qu'à libérer, avec l'humanité tout entière, les masses juives de l'Empire.
Aux premières heures de la révolution, il découvre la " Babel moderne " qu'est devenue Moscou. La demeure des Halperine, dont il devait épouser la fille, est réquisitionnée par les Gardes rouges, ne laissant aux maîtres des lieux que deux chambres où ils brûlent leurs livres et leurs meubles pour se chauffer. Quant à son père, il a été dépossédé de ses biens. Mais que peut encore le révolutionnaire pour l'" ennemi du peuple ", dans l'abîme où sombre la Russie ?
Schalom Asch " ne se contente pas de nous offrir un tableau des événements ; il pénètre profondément dans le domaine de l'âme et nous montre l'importance des conflits intérieurs au sein des bouleversements matériels les plus violents ", a dit de lui Stefan Zweig.
Préface de Rachel Erthel
Zakhari Mirkin, jeune bourgeois déjudaïsé, a fui les salons de Pétersbourg pour le " royaume des gueux " : les villes juives de Pologne, où bouillonnent les idéaux du sionisme et de la révolte. Acquis aux idées nouvelles, il ne songe qu'à libérer, avec l'humanité tout entière, les masses juives de l'Empire.
Aux premières heures de la révolution, il découvre la " Babel moderne " qu'est devenue Moscou. La demeure des Halperine, dont il devait épouser la fille, est réquisitionnée par les Gardes rouges, ne laissant aux maîtres des lieux que deux chambres où ils brûlent leurs livres et leurs meubles pour se chauffer. Quant à son père, il a été dépossédé de ses biens. Mais que peut encore le révolutionnaire pour l'" ennemi du peuple ", dans l'abîme où sombre la Russie ?
Schalom Asch " ne se contente pas de nous offrir un tableau des événements ; il pénètre profondément dans le domaine de l'âme et nous montre l'importance des conflits intérieurs au sein des bouleversements matériels les plus violents ", a dit de lui Stefan Zweig.
568 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1930
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About the author
Sholem Asch
259 books36 followersPolish-American writer Sholem Asch (also written Shalom Ash, Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz) sought to reconcile Judaism and Christianity in his controversial novels, such as
The Nazarene
(1939).
Sholem Asch composed dramas and essays in the language.
Frajda Malka bore Asch and nine other children to Moszek Asz, a cattle-dealer and innkeeper. Asch received tradition and as a young man followed, obtained a more liberal education at Włocławek, and supported with letters for the illiterate townspeople. He moved to Warsaw and met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of Menahem Mendel Shapiro. The Haskalah or Hebrew enlightenment initially influenced Asch, but Isaac Leib Peretz convinced him to switch.
Plot of God of Vengeance , his drama of 1907 features a lesbian relationship in a brothel.
He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and to the United States in 1910.
His Kiddush ha-Shem in 1919 in the earliest historical modern literature concerns the anti-Semitic uprising of Khmelnytsky in mid-17th century Ukraine.
He sat out World War I in the United States and a naturalized as a citizen in 1920. He returned.
People celebrated a 12-volume set of his collected works, published in his own lifetime in the early 1920s.
When people performed God of Vengeance , the highly esteemed play, on Broadway in 1923, authorities arrested and successfully prosecuted the entire cast on obscenity charges despite the fact that people in Europe already translated it into German, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Czech, and Norwegian.
Farn Mabul ( Before the Flood , translated as Three Cities ), his trilogy of 1929 to 1931, describes early 20th century life in Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow.
In 1932, the republic awarded the decoration of Polonia Restituta, and the club of poets, essayists, and novelists (PEN) elected him honorary president.
He later moved to France and visited Palestine again in 1936. Dos Gezang fun Tol ( The Song of the Valley ) about the halutzim or Zionist pioneers in Palestine reflects his visit of 1936 to that region.
He set his Bayrn Opgrunt (1937), translated as The Precipice , in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s.
He settled in the United States in 1938.
He, however, later offended sensibilities with The Apostle , and Mary , parts of his trilogy, which in 1939 to 1949 dealt with subjects of New Testament. The Forward , leading language newspaper of New York, dropped him and openly attacked him for promotion.
Asch spent most his last two years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel but died in London. His house in Bat Yam now houses his namesake museum. Yale University holds the bulk of his library, which contains rare books and manuscripts, including some of his own works.
Sholem Asch composed dramas and essays in the language.
Frajda Malka bore Asch and nine other children to Moszek Asz, a cattle-dealer and innkeeper. Asch received tradition and as a young man followed, obtained a more liberal education at Włocławek, and supported with letters for the illiterate townspeople. He moved to Warsaw and met and married Mathilde Shapiro, the daughter of Menahem Mendel Shapiro. The Haskalah or Hebrew enlightenment initially influenced Asch, but Isaac Leib Peretz convinced him to switch.
Plot of God of Vengeance , his drama of 1907 features a lesbian relationship in a brothel.
He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and to the United States in 1910.
His Kiddush ha-Shem in 1919 in the earliest historical modern literature concerns the anti-Semitic uprising of Khmelnytsky in mid-17th century Ukraine.
He sat out World War I in the United States and a naturalized as a citizen in 1920. He returned.
People celebrated a 12-volume set of his collected works, published in his own lifetime in the early 1920s.
When people performed God of Vengeance , the highly esteemed play, on Broadway in 1923, authorities arrested and successfully prosecuted the entire cast on obscenity charges despite the fact that people in Europe already translated it into German, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Czech, and Norwegian.
Farn Mabul ( Before the Flood , translated as Three Cities ), his trilogy of 1929 to 1931, describes early 20th century life in Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow.
In 1932, the republic awarded the decoration of Polonia Restituta, and the club of poets, essayists, and novelists (PEN) elected him honorary president.
He later moved to France and visited Palestine again in 1936. Dos Gezang fun Tol ( The Song of the Valley ) about the halutzim or Zionist pioneers in Palestine reflects his visit of 1936 to that region.
He set his Bayrn Opgrunt (1937), translated as The Precipice , in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s.
He settled in the United States in 1938.
He, however, later offended sensibilities with The Apostle , and Mary , parts of his trilogy, which in 1939 to 1949 dealt with subjects of New Testament. The Forward , leading language newspaper of New York, dropped him and openly attacked him for promotion.
Asch spent most his last two years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, Israel but died in London. His house in Bat Yam now houses his namesake museum. Yale University holds the bulk of his library, which contains rare books and manuscripts, including some of his own works.
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December 16, 2023
Dans ce dernier tome de la trilogie, on retrouve Zakhari Mirkin à Moscou qui fait partie d’un groupe de bolcheviques chargés de repousser les contrerévolutionnaires des abords du théâtre Bolchoï. Zochka, la sœur de son épouse Hélène, a d’une foi inébranlable en la révolution, ce qui n’est pas le cas de Zakhari quand il réalise la déshumanisation de tout ce qui se passe. On retrouve aussi Gabriel Mirkin, le père de Zakhari ainsi le vieil avocat Halperine qui ne pense qu’à aller retrouver les armées blanches: mais celles-ci pourchassent aussi les juifs…Les avancées bolchéviques sont implacables et la révolution doit éliminer tous ceux qui se mettent en travers de sa route. Zakhari arrivera-t-il à survivre ?
Une formidable épopée !
Une formidable épopée !
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