Multi-bottom life outside the law, or Jewish ‘inlays’ by Mandelstam (notes of the translator of Osip Mandelstam in Hebrew)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-120-135
Abstract
The article offers a commentary on a number of images of poems by O.E. Mandelstam, ascending, according to the author, directly to Jewish sources: Torah, Talmudic commentaries, Jewish funeral and memorial prayers, elements of the synagogue worship. The author discovers in poems by O.E. Mandelstam the acrostic of the word “Torah” with direct quotes from Jewish daily prayers, funeral words and inscriptions. This allows the author to raise the question of the meaning of the poet’s appeal to his wife and future widow N.Ya. Mandelstam.
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For citations:
Kriksunov P. Multi-bottom life outside the law, or Jewish ‘inlays’ by Mandelstam (notes of the translator of Osip Mandelstam in Hebrew). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(6):120-135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-120-135
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