Analyzes poetry written in the ghettos and concentration camps, with special emphasis on the works of Abraham Sutzkever (Vilna) and Władysław Szlengel (Warsaw). Contends that the underlying principle in most of this poetry was to offer testimony, but it also indicates the spirit…
"This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian interest in and engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. It explains why some Christians were preoccupied with Yiddish and discusses the vari…
This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddi…
"Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe--one in which modernism, revolution, socialist…