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Author:

Yudkoff, Sunny S., author.

Title:

Tubercular capital : illness and the conditions of modern Jewish writing / Sunny S. Yudkoff.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

[xi], 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Tuberculosis in literature.
Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
Yiddish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Jewish authors--History.--History.
Tuberculosis patients' writings--History and criticism.
Tuberculosis and literature.
Hebrew literature, Modern.
Jewish literature.
Tuberculosis and literature.
Tuberculosis in literature.
Tuberculosis patients' writings.
Yiddish literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Jewish literature and tubercular capital -- In the hands of every reader : Sholem Aleichem's tubercular jubilee -- In a sickroom of her own : RahĐel Bluvshtein's tubercular poetry -- In the kingdom of fever : the writers of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society -- In the sanatorium : David Vogel between Hebrew and German -- Epilogue : after the cure.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

ISBN:

1503605159
9781503605152

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1022979109

LCCN:

2018019693

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)