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.
General
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
German Jewish Cultures |
| Release date: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Marc Caplan
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
394 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-253-05200-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-253-05200-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780253052001 |
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