Allison Schachter

Diasporic Modernisms

Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 167mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780199812639
• ISBN-10: 0199812632
• Artikelnr.: 33371351

Autorenporträt

Allison Schachter is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1
The Protomodernist Storyteller in Odessa:
S. Y. Abramovitsh's Ba-yamim ha-hem and Shloyme reb khayims
Chapter 2
Translation and Transnationalism in Yosef Chaim Brenner's Shekhol ve-khishalon
Chapter 3
The Crisis of Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin:
Dovid Bergelson's Interwar Short Fiction
Chapter 4
Gender and the Language of Modernism in Leah Goldberg's Ve-hu ha-'or
Chapter 5
The Afterlife of Diasporic Modernism:
Gabriel Preil and Kadia Molodowsky in Postwar New York
Postscript
Index