Diasporic modernisms: hebrew and yiddish literature in the twentieth century

Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers--S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, and others--who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew. Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers--including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil, and Kadia Molodowsky--who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew. Schachter examines how therelationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers were registered in the innovative practices of modernist prose fiction, capturing the aestheticconditioned by diaspora, spanning from 1894 to 1974. This literary culture developed in the wake of Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires' decline, whenJewish writers and readers immigrated to new centers of modern Jewish culture, including Odessa, Jerusalem, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York.Offering the first comparative literary history of Hebrew and Yiddish modernist prose, Diasporic Modernisms argues that these two literary histories can nolonger be separated by nationalist and monolingual histories. Instead, the book illuminates how these two literary languages continue to animate each other, even after the creation of a Jewish state, with Hebrew as its national language. INDICE: Introduction Chapter 1 The Protomodernist Storyteller in Odessa: S. Y. Abramovitsh's Ba-yamim ha-hem and Shloyme reb khayims Chapter 2 Translation and Transnationalism in Yosef Chaim Brenner's Shekhol ve-khishalon Chapter 3 The Crisis of Yiddish Modernism in Weimar Berlin: Dovid Bergelson's InterwarShort Fiction Chapter 4 Gender and the Language of Modernism in Leah Goldberg's Ve-hu ha-'or Chapter 5 The Afterlife of Diasporic Modernism: Gabriel Preil and Kadia Molodowsky in Postwar New York Postscript Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-981263-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 17/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés