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Diasporic modernisms : Hebrew and Yiddish litreature in the twentieth century / Allison Schachter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schachter, Allison, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Hebrew literature, Modern.
- Yiddish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mendele Mokher Sefarim.
- Bergelson, David, 1884-1952--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bergelson, David.
- Goldberg, Leah, 1911-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
- Goldberg, Leah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Diasporic Modernisms' illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers - S.Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, and others - who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Note on the Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Storyteller in Translation; 2. Diasporic Address and Transnational Hebrew; 3. Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin; 4. Gender and the Language of Modernism; 5. The Afterlife of Diasporic Modernism in Postwar New York; Postscript; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-42320-0
- 9786613423207
- 0-19-981264-0
- OCLC:
- 922970643
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