Between German and Hebrew: The Counterlanguages of Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss

by Lina Barouch

This book traces the German-Hebrew contact zones in which Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss lived and produced their creative work in early twentieth-century Germany and later in British Mandate Palestine after their voluntary or forced migration in the 1920s and 1930s. Set in shifting historical contexts and literary debates - the notion of the German vernacular nation, Hebraism and Jewish Revival in Weimar Germany, the crisis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110464144
• ISBN13: 9783110464146
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"