From Kabbalah to class struggle
Subtitle: expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener
By: Mikhail Krutikov.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804770071
Subjects: Wiener, M. -- 1893-1941; Authors, Yiddish -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Jewish critics -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Jewish scholars -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Yiddish literature -- History and criticism; Marxist criticism -- Soviet Union -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why Meir Wiener?; title: Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture; title: Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna; title: On the way to Yiddish and emigration; title: Soviet beginnings; title: Folklore, language, and the haskalah; title: Yiddish realism and literary history; title: Soviet literature and theory; title: History and fiction; title: Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.