Washington at the Plow modems A close reading of postrevolutionary

A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity

they draw on original research data and synthesize work previously unavailable to western readers

clinical observation at superficial and more in-depth levels

This is a book about what it takes to get back up

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Washington at the Plow modems A close reading of postrevolutionaryA fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the "respectability & importance which we ought to hold