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Title:

Yiddish in Weimar Berlin : at the crossroads of diaspora politics and culture / edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov.

Publisher:

Modern Humanities Research Association ;

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xv, 270 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Berlin--Berlin--Intellectual life--20th century.
Arts and society--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Jewish diaspora--History--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)--Politics and government--20th century.

Other Authors:

Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ)
Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-
Modern Humanities Research Association.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Yiddish on the Spree / Gennady Estraikh -- Deciphering the hieroglyphics of the metropolis : literary topographies of Berlin in Hebrew and Yiddish modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- A Yiddish poet engages with German society : A.N. Stencl's Weimar period / Heather Valencia -- Like fires in overgrown forests : Moyshe Kulbak's contemporary Berlin poetics / Jordan Finkin -- Belarus in Berlin, Berlin in Belarus : Moyshe Kulbak's Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim between nostalgia and apocalypse / Marc Caplan -- The air outside is bloody : Leyb Kvitko and his pogrom cycle 1919 / Sabine Koller -- A warm morning gown and a shawl from Berlin : Liebe Zaltsman's Yiddish letters to Helene Koigen / Verena Dohrn -- The Berlin bureau of the New York Forvets / Gennady Estraikh -- Max Weinreich in Weimar Germany / Amy Blau -- Reports from the Republic Lear : David Eynhorn in Weimar Berlin 1920-24 / Anne-Christin Sass -- Jewish universalism, the Yiddish encyclopedia, and the Nazi rise to power / Barry Trachtenberg -- Yiddish, the storyteller, and German-Jewish modernism : a new look at Alfred Döblin in the 1920s / Jonathan Skolnik -- Between literature and history : Israel Joshua Singer's Berlin novel The family Carnovsky as a cul-de-sac of the German-Jewish symbiosis / Elvira Grözinger -- Unkind mirrors : Berlin in three Yiddish novels of the 1930s / Mikhail Krutikov.

Series:

Studies in Yiddish ; 8

ISBN:

1906540705
9781906540708

OCLC:

(OCoLC)470693041

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)