Building the Ratn-Farband: Monumentalizing the Soviet Utopian Project through Yiddish Art and Literature
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2024

This dissertation examines how members of the Eastern European Yiddish avant-garde integrated aspects of Jewish tradition with modernist aesthetics to monumentalize the ongoing task of establishing an industrial workers’ utopia within the Soviet Union. In this context, Peretz Markish’s early Soviet Yiddish texts function as literary monuments that reflect the tumultuous historical developments of the years following the Bolshevik Revolution and mimic the momentous architectural creations of the