Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin - (German Jewish Cultures) by Marc Caplan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>In <i>Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin</i>, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <i>Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin</i>, 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 Moyshe Kulbak--working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character of Yiddish literature produced in Weimar Germany, Caplan offers a new method of seeing how artistic creation is constructed and a new understanding of the political resonances that result from it. </p><p><i>Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin</i> reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how active Yiddish writers were in the literary scene, and how German-speaking Jews read descriptions of Yiddish-speaking Jews to uncover the emotional complexity of what they managed to create even in the midst of their confusion and ambivalence in Germany. </p><p>Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic modernism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin</i> is full of sharp insights and bold statements, which at times can raise incidental doubts in the reader's mind. Caplan's book is a work of creative critical research on modern Yiddish literature, particularly well-suited to the contemporary historical moment.</p>-- "Forward Magazine"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Marc Caplan is Visiting Professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is author of <i>How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms.</i></p>
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