Joseph Opatoshu
Subtitle: a Yiddish Writer Between Europe and America
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781351192033
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; Yiddish literature; Jews in literature; Judaism in literature; Littérature yiddish; Congrès; Juifs dans la littérature; Judaïsme dans la littérature
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Joseph Opatoshu's Search for Yidishkayt  -- Gennady Estraikh Sabine Koller Mikhail Krutikov; title: chapter 2 In New York Velder --; title: Yosef/Joseph Opatoshu -- Constructing a Multinational, 20th Century, (very) Modern Yiddish Identity  -- Dan Opatoshu; title: chapter 3 Soviet Dreams of a Cultural Exile  -- Gennady Estraikh; title: chapter 4 Faint Praise: The Early Critical Reception of Joseph Opatoshu's In poylishe velder  -- Ellen Kellman; title: chapter 5 The Two Souls of Mordkhe: In poylishe velder  -- Sabine Koller; title: chapter 6 In poylishe velder and The Brothers Karamazov: A Comparative Study  -- Harriet Murav; title: chapter 7 'Such a Rag-Bag': The Historical Novel as Spectacle, neo-Hasidic Hagiography, and Pseudo-territory  -- Jan Schwarz; title: chapter 8 A tog in Regensburg and Elye Bokher --; title: Opatoshu's 1933 Vision of Early Yiddish and Medieval Ashkenazi Culture, his Scholarly-Yiddishist Models, and Means of Representation  -- Roland Gruschka; title: chapter 9 A tog in Regensburg: Scholarly Research and a Novel's Outline  -- Shlomo Berger; title: chapter 10 The Flesh and the Spirit: Opatoshu's novel Di tentserin (The Dancer)  -- Avraham Novershtern; title: chapter 11 Cityscapes of Yidishkayt: Opatoshu's New York Trilogy  -- Mikhail Krutikov; title: chapter 12 Opatoshu's Eroticism, American Obscenity  -- Josh Lambert; title: chapter 13 Yiddish Exceptionalism: Lynching, Race, and Racism in Opatoshu's Lintsheray  -- Marc Caplan; title: chapter 14 Mentshn un khayes (1938): Snapshots of Jewish life in America and Europe  -- Astrid Starck-Adler; title: chapter 15 Literature for Children? The Case of Joseph Opatoshu  -- Evita Wiecki; title: chapter 16 Bibliography of Joseph Opatoshu -- Holger Nath.