In the Privacy of One’s Own Homelessness: The Search for Identity in Twentieth-Century Yiddish Travelogues
Journal: Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
Year: 2016

This dissertation argues that the richness and distinctiveness of modern Yiddish travel literature—with its emphasis on arriving rather than departing—reflects the complexity of such East European Jewish notions as home, homelessness, and wandering. It examines the ways in which the experience of travel affected the search for identity, home, and belonging by Yiddish writers from the first secularized and westernized generation of East European Jews. Yiddish travelogues written in the first four