Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism

by Marc Caplan

Book Overview

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 Moyshe Kulbak--working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253052009
• ISBN13: 9780253052001
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher