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In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe
Weiss, Yfaat ; Gordinsky, Natasha ; Gal-Ed, Efrat (Author)
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe - Weiss, Yfaat ; Gordinsky, Natasha ; Gal-Ed, Efrat
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Synopsis "In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe"
From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ruptures of the era, many authors experimented with various modernist poetics in the context of a culturally and literarily closely interwoven milieu. This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents for the first time some of the key figures of the era, including in each case a portrait of the author and a close reading of selected texts, including Yosef Hayim Brenner, Leah Goldberg, Moyshe Kulbak, and Deborah Vogel. Of particular interest here is the productive entanglement of cultures and literatures, of cultural contact and transfer, and the significance of space and place for the development of modern Jewish literatures.