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Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin - A Fugitive Modernism

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Informationen zum Autor Marc Caplan is Visiting Professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is author of How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms. Klappentext In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers--Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak--working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character of Yiddish literature produced in Weimar Germany, Caplan offers a new method of seeing how artistic creation is constructed and a new understanding of the political resonances that result from it. Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how active Yiddish writers were in the literary scene, and how German-speaking Jews read descriptions of Yiddish-speaking Jews to uncover the emotional complexity of what they managed to create even in the midst of their confusion and ambivalence in Germany. Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic modernism. Zusammenfassung In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Weimar and Now Spectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism 1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union-and Berlin 2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin Stories Melancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and the Performance of Self in Yiddish and German Modernism 3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, The Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories 4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist Career Apocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism 5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe 6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere) Conclusion: Origin Is the Goal Bibliography Index...

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Authors Marc Caplan
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2021
 
EAN 9780253052001
ISBN 978-0-253-05200-1
No. of pages 394
Series German Jewish Cultures
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies

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