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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aCaplan, Marc,
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245 1 0 _aYiddish writers in Weimar Berlin :
_ba fugitive modernism /
_cMarc Caplan.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages).
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aGerman Jewish cultures
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction: Weimar and Now --
_tSpectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism. --
_tA Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union and Berlin --
_tAt the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin Stories --
_tMelancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and Baroque Aesthetics in Yiddish and German Modernism. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, the Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories --
_tHarold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist Career --
_tApocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe --
_tMoyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere) --
_tConclusion: Origin Is the Goal.
520 0 _a"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 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. Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin 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. Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic"--
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600 1 0 _aKulbak, Moshe,
_d1896-1940
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 0 0 _aNister,
_d1884-1950
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aBergelson, David,
_d1884-1952
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aRoth, Joseph,
_d1894-1939
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aDöblin, Alfred,
_d1878-1957
_xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 _aYiddish literature
_zGermany
_zBerlin
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aYiddish literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aJews
_zGermany
_zBerlin
_xIntellectual life
_y20th century.
650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
_zGermany
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2636090&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell