Tubercular capital : illness and the conditions of modern Jewish writing / Sunny S. Yudkoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yudkoff, Sunny S., author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis in literature.

Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Yiddish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jewish authors--Diseases--History.

Jewish authors.

Tuberculosis patients' writings--History and criticism.

Tuberculosis patients' writings.

Tuberculosis and literature.

Diseases.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Introduction : Jewish literature and tubercular capital

In the hands of every reader : Sholem Aleichem's tubercular jubilee

In a sickroom of her own : Raḥel Bluvshtein's tubercular poetry

In the kingdom of fever : the writers of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society

In the sanatorium : David Vogel between Hebrew and German

Epilogue : after the cure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Yudkoff, Sunny S. Tubercular capital.

ISBN:

9781503605152

1503605159

OCLC:

1022979109