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Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin : A Fugitive Modernism
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Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin : A Fugitive Modernism / Marc Caplan.
ISBN
9780253051998
9780253051974
9780253052001
9780253051981
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (394 pages).
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Summary
"In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers-Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak-working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character of Yiddish literature produced in Weimar Germany, Caplan offers a new method of seeing how artistic creation is constructed and a new understanding of the political resonances that result from it. Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how active Yiddish writers were in the literary scene, and how German-speaking Jews read descriptions of Yiddish-speaking Jews to uncover the emotional complexity of what they managed to create even in the midst of their confusion and ambivalence in Germany. Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
German Jewish cultures
Contents
Introduction: Weimar and Now
Spectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism.
A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union and Berlin
At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin Stories
Melancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and Baroque Aesthetics in Yiddish and German Modernism. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, the Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories
Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist Career
Apocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe
Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)
Conclusion: Origin Is the Goal.
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