Cynthia Ozick: There is nothing in the world like it-Dada plus autobiography plus chanting cadences plus riddles plus geographies plus histories-in short a New Thing is born.Alex Averbuch: Permeating this book is a joyful yet piercing irony - toward the self as well as the world revealing both Jewish self-criticism and the enduring presence of antisemitism. Cataloguing humanness marking off the boundaries of nationhood but dissolving them at the same time Marina Temkina defines by un-defining the self the other stigma stereotype and the universal. With this provocative exploration she aims to dismantle the ethnonational and the rigid unsettling what seems settled so as to reveal what is most deeply human.Bilingual Books: Russian Literature with Parallel English Translation