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In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe - Hardcover

Efrat Gal-Ed; Natasha Gordinsky

 
9783525306116: In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe

Synopsis

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 Ḥayim 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.

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About the Author

Dr. Natasha Gordinsky ist Dozentin am Institut fÃ"r hebräische und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Haifa und Mitglied der Israel Young Academy.

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