Books by Efraim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sicher

This radical critique, and comparative study, of postmodern Jewish culture, offers innovative readings of major contemporary writers in Israel and the English-speaking diaspora.

This study shows how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook, and social or ideological pressures.