From Kabbalah to class struggle : expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / Mikhail Krutikov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Yiddish--Soviet Union--Biography.

Authors, Yiddish.

Jewish critics--Soviet Union--Biography.

Jewish critics.

Jewish scholars--Soviet Union--Biography.

Jewish scholars.

Yiddish literature--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

Marxist criticism--Soviet Union--History.

Marxist criticism.

Wiener, M. (Meir), 1893-1941.

Wiener, M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.

Contents:

Introduction : why Meir Wiener?

Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture

Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna

On the way to Yiddish and emigration

Soviet beginnings

Folklore, language, and the haskalah

Yiddish realism and literary history

Soviet literature and theory

History and fiction

Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777254

080477725X

OCLC:

713026641