In comparison with the European average, matronymics (names deriving from the bearer's mother, including family names formed in this way) are surprisingly frequent in the Yiddish language area although it is customary to regard traditional Jewish culture, and perhaps that of Eas…
"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 Moy…
Introduction: Weimar and Now -- Spectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism. -- A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union and Berlin -- At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkei…
"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 Moy…
"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 Moy…
'From Kabbalah to Class Struggle' is an intellectual profile of Meir Wiener, an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.
The Golem or the miraculous deeds of Rabbi Leyb / Yudl Rosenberg -- Yiddish folktales and legends of old Prague (selections) / S. Bastomski --The Golem / Dovid Frishman -- The Golem / H. Leivick.
New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914.
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or 'primitive' tribesmen. Primitivism - the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called 'primitive', non-Western peoples who were also subju…