An innovative study of Yiddish literature that reveals the impact
of anarchist movements and refugee organizing on Jewish literary
history  Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating
work combines archival research on the radical press and close
readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of
the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through a cast
of historical characters, from the well known—such as Emma
Goldman—to the more obscure, including an anarchist rabbi who
translated the Talmud and a feminist doctor who organized for
women’s suffrage and against national borders. Its literary scope
includes the Soviet epic poemas of Peretz Markish, the journalism
and modernist poetry of Anna Margolin, and the early radical prose
of Malka Heifetz Tussman. Â Anna Elena Torres examines
Yiddish anarchist aesthetics from the nineteenth-century Russian
proletarian immigrant poets through the modernist avant-gardes of
Warsaw, Chicago, and London to contemporary antifascist composers.
The book also traces Jewish anarchist strategies for negotiating
surveillance, censorship, detention, and deportation, revealing the
connection between Yiddish modernism and struggles for free speech,
women’s bodily autonomy, and the transnational circulation of
avant-garde literature. Â Rather than focusing on narratives
of assimilation, Torres intervenes in earlier models of Jewish
literature by centering refugee critique of the border. Jewish
deportees, immigrants, and refugees opposed citizenship as the
primary guarantor of human rights. Instead, they cultivated
stateless imaginations, elaborated through literature.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2024 |
| Authors: |
Anna Elena Torres
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-24356-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-300-24356-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780300243567 |
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