Abstract
Town in G. Kanovich’s trilogy: tradition and innovation. Topos of the Jewish town (shtetl) is one of the most widely- spread images in the Jewish literature. The Pale, everyday life details, the Jewish poor are traditional features of shtetl representation (tradition took shape by the end of XIX – beginning of XX century). After the World War II shtetl is seen as a demolished native world. In the novels “A Kid for Two Groszes” (1989, 1991), “Don’t avert the face from death” (1992), “The Charm of the Satan” (2007) Grigoriy Kanovich creates a specific model of the Jewish shtetl. The signs of the Jewish space have been substantially transformed (especially in the appearance of cemetery): it as not a traditional Jewish world anymore, but the world forced to survive in the new historic circumstances. The last novel of the trilogy is the text which captures the collapse of the Jewish world.KEY WORDS: shtetl, Jewish, cemetery, eternity, history, destruction, exodus.
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