| Series |
Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures
Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures. ^A1315764
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| Contents |
A Note on the Orthography and Transliteration; Introduction: At the Threshold; 1. Imagining Self and Other: Encounters between Ostjuden and Westjuden; 2. "Entwined in Dialogue": Ludwig Strauss on the Border of Bilingualism; 3. "A Youthful Rogue Am I": Moyshe Kulbak between Exile and Arrival; 4. "Orient, So It Is!" Uri Zvi Greenberg's Farewell to Europe; 5. "I Am Foreign": Gertrud Kolmar's Orientalist Expedition; Epilogue: Between East and West, Past and Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view German and East European Jewish cultures as separate fields of study, this is the first book to present Jewish literature in the Weimar Republic as the product of the dynamic encounter between East and West. Whether they were native to Germany or sojourners from abroad, Jewish writers responded to their exclusion from rising nationalist movements by cultivating their own images of homeland in verse, and they did so in three languages: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Author Rachel Seelig portrays Berlin during the Weimar Republic as a"threshold" between exile and homeland in which national and artistic commitments were reexamined, reclaimed, and rebuilt. In the pulsating yet precarious capital of Germany's first fledgling democracy, the collision of East and West engendered a broad spectrum of poetic styles and Jewish national identities. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Seelig, Rachel. Strangers in Berlin. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2016] 9780472130092 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780472122288 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0472122282 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt1gc1vxm JSTOR |
| Stock number | D691A8CD-6885-4857-B0C5-D19EE9AC28F1 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
