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10 - Complex Hybrids

from Part II - New York and the Eastern States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2024

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Affiliation:
West Chester University, Pennsylvania
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Chapter 10 uncovers the Jewish immigrants from the Russian empire who, to an extent elided in Ilf and Petrov’s published work, served them as critical cultural mediators. It recounts their hunt for a guide willing to accompany them on their road trip, and sketches the biographies of their eventual “angels,” the retired GE engineer Solomon Trone and his wife Florence Trone, who became the prototypes for the fictionalized Mr. and Mrs. Adams. Recovering the writers’ connections with people like the Trones, the chapter explores cultural exchange as a process that at once sharpened and blurred the lines between "us" and the "Other."

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
, pp. 99 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Complex Hybrids
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.013
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  • Complex Hybrids
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.013
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  • Complex Hybrids
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.013
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