Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising
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Abstract
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595-1657), the Ukrainian Cossack leader who led the 1648 rebellion against Polish magnates, has been memorialized in Ukraine as a national hero and as the author of a fatal compromise. In Russia he has been viewed as a dangerous but important ally. He is seen as an enemy to Polish Catholics, and among Jews, as the perpetrator of a horrific massacre. Stories of Khmelnytsky juxtaposes literary accounts of Khmelnytsky that appeared in Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and Hebrew. The twelve chapters in this edited volume of literary studies collectively illustrate how a figure can simultaneously remain a hero, traitor and villain, from the event’s immediate aftermath to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into four parts: the first treats the century following the Cossack uprising, including chronicles written in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ukrainian, and the relationship between the uprising and the trans-continental Sabbatean Movement in Judaism. The second section explores the figure of Khmelnytsky in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Romanticism, as well as post-Romanticism. A section on the reinvention of national traditions explores the figure of Khmelnytsky in Jewish and Ukrainian Modernist literature, as well as the role of the Cossacks in turn-of the twentieth-century national revivals, including Ukrainian nationalism and Zionism. The final section discusses the figure of Khmelnytsky in the twentieth century, including the image of the Hetman in the Red Army, and the role of Khmelnytsky in twentieth-century East European literature and film.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Bohdan Khmelnytsky as Protagonist: Between Hero and Villain
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Part I The Literary Aftermath of 1648
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1
A Portrait in Ambivalence: The Case of Natan Hanover and His Chronicle, Yeven metsulah
Adam Teller
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2
“A Man Worthy of the Name Hetman”: The Fashioning of Khmelnytsky as a Hero in the Hrabianka Chronicle
Frank E. Sysyn
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3
A Reevaluation of the “Khmelnytsky Factor”: The Case of the Seventeenth-Century Sabbatean Movement
Ada Rapoport-Albert
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A Portrait in Ambivalence: The Case of Natan Hanover and His Chronicle, Yeven metsulah
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Part II Khmelnytsky and Romanticism
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Apotheosis, Rejection, and Transference: Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Romantic Literature
George G. Grabowicz
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Heroes and Villains in the Historical Imagination: The Elusive Khmelnytsky
Taras Koznarsky
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The Image of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Polish Romanticism and Its Post-Romantic Reflex
Roman Koropeckyj
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Apotheosis, Rejection, and Transference: Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Romantic Literature
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Part III Khmelnytsky and the Reinvention of National Traditions
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Part IV Khmelnytsky in Twentieth-Century Mythologies
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Jews and Soviet Remythologization of the Ukrainian Hetman: The Case of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Gennady Estraikh
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On the Other Side of Despair: Cossacks and Jews in Yurii Kosach’s The Day of Rage
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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12
Khmelnytsky in Motion: The Case of Soviet, Polish, and Ukrainian Film
Izabela Kalinowska andMarta Kondratyuk
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Afterword
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
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Jews and Soviet Remythologization of the Ukrainian Hetman: The Case of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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End Matter
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