Yiddish in Weimar Berlin
Subtitle: at the crossroads of diaspora politics and culture
By: edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov
Contributors: Modern Humanities Research Association
Series: Studies in Yiddish -- 8; Studies in Yiddish -- 8.
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association; Maney Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Leeds
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781906540708
Subjects: Jewish diaspora; Politics and government; Jews; Intellectual life; Arts and society; Literarisches Leben; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Yiddish on the Spree / Gennady Estraikh; title: Deciphering the hieroglyphics of the metropolis : literary topographies of Berlin in Hebrew and Yiddish modernism / Shachar Pinsker; title: A Yiddish poet engages with German society : A.N. Stencl's Weimar period / Heather Valencia; title: 'Like fires in overgrown forests' : Moyshe Kulbak's contemporary Berlin poetics / Jordan Finkin; title: Belarus in Berlin, Berlin in Belarus : Moyshe Kulbak's Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim between nostalgia and apocalypse / Marc Caplan; title: 'The air outside is bloody' : Leyb Kvitko and his pogrom cycle 1919 / Sabine Koller; title: A warm morning gown and a shawl from Berlin : Liebe Zaltsman's Yiddish letters to Helene Koigen / Verena Dohrn; title: The Berlin bureau of the New York Forvets / Gennady Estraikh; title: Max Weinreich in Weimar Germany / Amy Blau; title: Reports from the 'Republic Lear' : David Eynhorn in Weimar Berlin 1920-24 / Anne-Christin Sass; title: Jewish universalism, the Yiddish encyclopedia, and the Nazi rise to power / Barry Trachtenberg; title: Yiddish, the storyteller, and German-Jewish modernism : a new look at Alfred Döblin in the 1920s / Jonathan Skolnik; title: Between literature and history : Israel Joshua Singer's Berlin novel The family Carnovsky as a cul-de-sac of the German-Jewish 'symbiosis' / Elvira Grözinger; title: Unkind mirrors : Berlin in three Yiddish novels of the 1930s / Mikhail Krutikov.