"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…
"In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carryi…
"In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carryi…
"In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carryi…
by Project Muse, Frakes, Jerold C.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Only a world war could bring us such elegance: Milgroym, Rimon, and periodic bilingualism in Berlin -- Breathing Hebrew with both lungs: Hebrew and Yiddish in Palestine -- The belated bilingualism of Zalman Shneour and Y.D. Berkovitz -- Bound up in the bond of Hebrew literature:…
