David Bergelson
Subtitle: from modernism to socialist realism
By: edited by Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh
Contributors: Sherman, Joseph; Ėstraĭkh, G.
Series: Studies in Yiddish -- 6
Publisher: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Manley Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781905981120
Subjects: Bergelson, David, -- 1884-1952 -- Congresses; Bergelson, David, -- 1884-1952 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Authors, Yiddish -- Biography -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses; Biography
Notes: Essays from papers presented at the Sixth Mendel Friedman Conference in Yiddish, Oxford, England, 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: David Bergelson (1884-1952) : a biography / Joseph Sherman; title: Memories of my father : the early years (1918-1934) / Lev Bergelson; title: Language and style in Nokh alemen (1913) : Bergelson's debt to Flaubert / Daniela Mantovan; title: For children and adults alike : reading Bergelson's 'children's stories' (1914-1919) as narratives of identity formation / Kerstin Hoge; title: Yoysef Shor (1922) : between two worlds / Seth L. Wolitz; title: In search of readership : Bergelson among the refugees (1928) / Sasha Senderovich; title: Narrating the revolution : from 'Tsugvintn' (1922) to Mides-hadin (1929) / Mikhail Krutikov; title: Uneasy patronage : Bergelson's years at Forverts (1922-1926) / Ellen Kellman; title: David Bergelson in and on America (1929-1949) / Gennady Estraikh; title: 'Why I am in favour of Birobidzhan' : Bergelson's fateful decision (1932) / Boris Kotlerman; title: Memory and monument in Baym Dnyepr (1932-1940) / Harriet Murav; title: From mourning to vengeance : Bergelson's Holocaust journalism (1941-1945) / David Schneer; title: 'Du lebst, mayn folk' : Bergelson's play Prints Ruveni in historical context (1944-1947) / Jeffrey Veidlinger; title: 'Jewish nationalism' in Bergelson's last book (1947) / Joseph Sherman; title: A bibliography of David Bergelson's work in Yiddish and English / Roberta Saltzman; title: Bergelson's literary theory : Belles-lettres and the social order (1919), Three centres (characteristics) (1926)