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Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin : A Fugitive Modernism /

"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-worki...

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Autor principal: Caplan, Marc (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.