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Yiddish modernism : studies in twentieth-century Eastern European Jewish culture / Seth L. Wolitz ; edited by Brian Horowitz, Haim A. Gottschalk.

Title: Yiddish modernism : studies in twentieth-century Eastern European Jewish culture / Seth L. Wolitz ; edited by Brian Horowitz, Haim A. Gottschalk.
Author: Wolitz, Seth L.
Publication: Bloomington, IN : Slavica Publishers, [2012]

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Description

xii, 441 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm.

Series Statement

New approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture series ; 3

Uniform Title

New approaches to Russian and East European culture series ; 3.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Contents

The Americanization of Tevye, or Boarding the Jewish Mayflower -- Inscribing An-ski's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters -- Translations of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta as Iconic Moments in Yiddish Theater -- Simkhe Plakhte: From "Folklore" to Literary Artifact -- Forging a Hero for a Jewish Stage : Goldfadn's Bar kokhba -- Shulamis and Bar Kohba: Renewed Jewish Role Models in Golfadn and Halkin -- "Shabes, yontef un rosh-khoydesh": A Close Analysis of the First Line of Goldfadn's Song -- Language as Ideology in Nokh alemen -- The Two "Yordim": I. Bashevis Singer's Debt to Dovid Bergelson -- "Der yid fun bovl": Variants and Meanings -- Satan in Goray as Parable -- Erasure, Narrational, National, and Personal in Yisrael Rabon's Di gas -- The City as Cadre and Character in Sholem Asch's Dray shtet -- Structuring the Worldview in Halpern's In nyu-york -- Abo Shtoltsenberg : A Poet and His Personae
Markish's Radyo (1922): Yiddish Modernism as Agitprop -- Yiddish Modernist Dirge : Di kupe of Perets Markish -- Troyer (Grief): Hofshteyn's Fellow-Traveler Dirge -- Performing a Holocaust Play in Warsaw in 1963 -- Golem (1920): An Expressionist Treatment -- Imagining the Jew in France : From 1945 to the Present -- Kiev-Grupe (1918 -- 20) Debate : The Function of Literature -- Between Folk and Freedom : The Failure of the Yiddish Modernist Movement in Poland -- Vitebsk versus Betsalel : A Jewish Kulturkampf in the Plastic Arts -- The Jewish National Art Renaissance in Russia.

ISBN

9780893573867 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012045273

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