Mikhail Krutikov is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D in Jewish Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary and is the author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity (2001), From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener (2011), Der Nister's Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People (2019) and Tsvishn shures: Notitsn vegan yidisher kultur (Between the Lines: Notes on Yiddish Culture) (2019). He has co-edited ten collections of articles on Yiddish culture and writes a review column for the Forverts.
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The analysis that follows approaches race in Glazman’s fiction primarily through its psychological and metaphysical dimensions rather than its social history. Although his work reproduces prevailing racist stereotypes, especially in depictions of Black women, his deeper preoccupation is the corrosive effect of racism on the psyche of Jewish male characters.
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