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Title Yiddish writers in Weimar Berlin : a fugitive modernism / Marc Caplan
Author Caplan, Marc
Imprint Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Litteraturvetenskap & författarbiografier  839.1 engelska    CHECK SHELF  
Descript xiv, 375 pages 23 cm
Series German Jewish cultures
German Jewish cultures
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"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
Subject 1918-1933 (Weimarrepubliken, Tyskland)
Yiddish literature -- Germany -- Berlin -- History and criticism
Yiddish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Modernism (Literature) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Litteratur på jiddisch -- politiska aspekter -- historia
Tyskland -- Berlin
Analys och tolkning
Classmark 839.100943115
Gfo
ISBN/ISSN 9780253051981 hardcover
0253051983 hardcover
9780253052001 paperback
0253052009 paperback
9780253051998 (electronic book)
40030301398
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