Yiddish in Weimar Berlin
| Titel: | Yiddish in Weimar Berlin : at the crossroads of diaspora politics and culture / ed. by Gennady Estraikh ... |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | London : Maney Publ., 2010 |
| Umfang: | XV, 270 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Legenda studies in Yiddish ; 8 |
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| ISBN: | 9781906540708 ; 1906540705 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. ix
- Preface
- p. x
- List of Illustrations
- p. xiv
- Note on Transliteration
- p. xvi
- Introduction: Yiddish on the Spree
- p. 1
- 1
- Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Metropolis: Literary Topographies of Berlin in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism
- p. 28
- 2
- A Yiddish Poet Engages with German Society: A. N. Stencl's Weimar Period
- p. 54
- 3
- 'Like fires in overgrown forests': Moyshe Kulbak's Contemporary Berlin Poetics
- p. 73
- 4
- Belarus in Berlin, Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak's Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim between Nostalgia and Apocalypse
- p. 89
- 5
- 'The air outside is bloody': Leyb Kvitko and his Pogrom Cycle 1919
- p. 105
- 6
- A Warm Morning Gown and a Shawl from Berlin: Liebe Zaltsman's Yiddish Letters to Helene Koigen
- p. 123
- 7
- The Berlin Bureau of the New York Forverts
- p. 141
- 8
- Max Weinreich in Weimar Germany
- p. 163
- 9
- Reports from the 'Republic Lear': David Eynhorn in Weimar Berlin 1920-24
- p. 179
- 10
- Jewish Universalism, the Yiddish Encyclopedia, and the Nazi Rise to Power
- p. 195
- 11
- Yiddish, the Storyteller, and German-Jewish Modernism: A New Look at Alfred Döblin in the 1920s
- p. 215
- 12
- Between Literature and History: Israel Joshua Singer's Berlin Novel The Family Carnovsky as a Cul-de-Sac of the German-Jewish 'Symbiosis'
- p. 224
- 13
- Unkind Mirrors: Berlin in Three Yiddish Novels of the 1930s
- p. 239
- Index
- p. 263
