ABSTRACT The city of Kiev was an inexhaustible source of material for Sholem Aleichem’s prolific writings in various genres. The imaginary city of Yehupets functions in his writing as a transitional space between the traditional shtetl and the modern city. The insecurity of Jewish residence in the city created a sense of anxiety which is a defining feature of Sholem Aleichem’s characters and was partly shared by the author himself. Sholem Aleichem’s choice of shtetl Jews as our guides through the social and physical labyrinths of Jewish Yehupets had its limitations conditioned by their mentality. It worked well as the literary device of defamiliarization, which enabled the educated urban readers to see their familiar environment critically by highlighting the dehumanizing and corrupting effects of Yehupets as a microcosm of the Russian Empire.

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Yehupets 作为幻想和现实：Sholem Aleichem 的基辅

摘要 基辅市是肖勒姆·阿莱赫姆 (Sholem Aleichem) 各种体裁多产著作的取之不尽的素材来源。想象中的耶胡佩茨在他的作品中起到了传统城市与现代城市之间的过渡空间的作用。犹太人居住在城市的不安全感造成了一种焦虑感，这是肖勒姆·阿莱赫姆 (Sholem Aleichem) 人物的一个决定性特征，作者本人也部分认同这种焦虑感。Sholem Aleichem 选择 shtetl 犹太人作为我们的向导，穿越犹太 Yehupets 的社会和物理迷宫，其局限性受到他们心态的限制。它作为一种陌生化的文学手段运作良好，通过突出作为俄罗斯帝国缩影的 Yehupets 的非人性和腐败影响，使受过教育的城市读者能够批判性地看待他们熟悉的环境。