Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780804735469
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; c 1900 - c 1914; Yiddish Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Yiddish; Literary Criticism; Jewish; Literary Criticism & Collections / Jewish; 20th century; History and criticism; Theory, etc; Yiddish fiction
Description: "This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of the First World War. Within Jewish society, and particularly Eastern European Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of incursions and threats to traditional Jewish life. Writers explored these perceived crises in their work, in the process reconsidering the role and function of Yiddish literature itself."--BOOK JACKET.