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Strangers in Berlin : modern Jewish literature between East and West, 1919-1933 / Rachel Seelig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seelig, Rachel.
- Series:
- Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish literature--Europe--History and criticism.
- Jewish literature.
- European literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jewish authors.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Some text in Hebrew or Yiddish (poetry) with English translations.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view German and East European Jewish cultures as separate fields of study, Strangers in Berlin is the first book to present Jewish literature in the Weimar Republic as the product of the dynamic encounter between East and West. Whether they were native to Germany or sojourners from abroad, Jewish writers responded to their exclusion from rising nationalist movements by cultivating their own images of homeland in verse, and they did so in three languages: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Author Rachel Seelig portrays Berlin during the Weimar Republic as a "threshold" between exile and homeland in which national and artistic commitments were reexamined, reclaimed, and rebuilt. In the pulsating yet precarious capital of Germany's first fledgling democracy, the collision of East and West engendered a broad spectrum of poetic styles and Jewish national identities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: At the threshold
- Chapter 1. One imagining self and other: encounters between Ostjuden and Westjuden
- Chapter 2. Entwined in dialogue? Ludwig Strauss on the border of Bilingualism
- Chapter 3. A youthful rogue am I? Moyshe Kulbak between exile and arrival
- Chapter 4. Orient, so it is! Uri Zvi Greenberg's farewell to Europe
- Chapter 5. I am foreign? Gertrud Kolmar's orientalist expedition
- Epilogue: Between East and West, past and present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472130092
- 9780472122288
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.9223331
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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