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A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury : The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky

Galya Diment

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Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, became an indispensable guide to Russian culture for England's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals, who in turn helped introduce English audiences to Russian works. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury looks at the remarkable influence that an outsider had on the tightly knit circle of Britain's cultural elite. Among Koteliansky's friends were Katherine Mansfield, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Mark Gertler, Lady Ottoline Morrell, H.G. Wells, and Dilys Powell. But it was his close and turbulent friendship with D.H. Lawrence that proved to be Koteliansky's lasting legacy. In a lively and vibrant narrative, Galya Diment shows how, despite Kot's determination, he could never escape the dark aspects of his past or overcome the streak of anti-Semitism that ran through British society, including the hearts and minds of many of his famous literary friends.

Table of Contents

Contents
Page 8-9

Acknowledgments
Page 10-23

Illustrations following pages
Page 24-24

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Introduction: Right Place, Right Time
Page 16-37

PART 1 FROM SHMILIK TO KOT: 1880–1930
Page 38-217

-----1 Shmilik
Page 40-53

-----2 “Kot”: The Jew in London
Page 54-74

-----3 Year 1915: Kot as Kangaroo
Page 75-99

-----4 Revolutions and Catastrophes
Page 100-117

-----5 H.G. Wells in Russia and the Death of Mansfield
Page 118-134

-----6 Translating for the Hogarth Press
Page 135-154

-----7 The Adelphi Affair and the Café Royal
Page 155-177

-----8 Rozanov and Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The End of an Era
Page 178-217

PART 2 AFTER LAWRENCE: 1931–1955
Page 218-319

-----9 Mournings: Old Enemies and New Friends
Page 220-240

-----10 Cresset Press: Losing Equilibrium
Page 241-259

-----11 May Sarton, Ottoline’s Death, and Gertler’s Suicide
Page 260-276

-----12 World War II and Its Aftermath
Page 277-296

-----13 Full Circle
Page 297-315

-----Post Mortem
Page 316-319

APPENDICES
Page 320-345

-----A: S.S. Koteliansky, 1880–1955: A Chronology
Page 320-325

-----B: Who’sWho in Koteliansky’s Life in England
Page 326-333

-----C: Lady Glenavy: More Memories of Kot
Page 334-340

-----D: Koteliansky and Stephen Spender
Page 341-343

-----E: Two Letters from Frieda Lawrence to Koteliansky
Page 344-345

Abbreviations
Page 346-347

Notes
Page 348-423

Bibliography
Page 424-441

Index
Page 442-451

-----A
Page 442-442

-----B
Page 442-442

-----C
Page 443-443

-----D
Page 443-443

-----E
Page 444-444

-----F
Page 444-444

-----G
Page 444-444

-----H
Page 445-445

-----I
Page 445-445

-----J
Page 445-445

-----K
Page 445-445

-----L
Page 446-446

-----M
Page 447-447

-----N
Page 448-448

-----O
Page 448-448

-----P
Page 448-448

-----R
Page 449-449

-----S
Page 449-449

-----T
Page 450-450

-----U
Page 450-450

-----V
Page 451-451

-----W
Page 451-451

-----Y
Page 451-451

-----Z
Page 451-451

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Book Details

Title

A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury

Subtitle

The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky

Contributors

Galya Diment

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Publication date

2011-10-17

Pages

xii, 438 p.

Print ISBN

9780773538993

eBook ISBN

9780773586130

LC Subjects

Translators - Great Britain - Biography., Jews - Great Britain - Biography., Bloomsbury group., Biography.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

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