Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture

by Gennady Estraikh

Overview

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which tell the dramatic story of Yiddish cultural life in Weimar Berlin as a case study in modern European culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367603694
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gennady Estraikh

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Preface x

List of Illustrations xiv

Note on Transliteration xvi

Introduction: Yiddish on the Spree Gennady Estraikh 1

1 Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Metropolis: Literary Topographies of Berlin in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Shachar Pinsker 28

2 A Yiddish Poet Engages with German Society: A. N. Stencl's Weimar Period Heather Valencia 54

3 'Like fires in overgrown forests': Moyshe Kulbak's Contemporary Berlin Poetics Jordan Finkin 73

4 Belarus in Berlin, Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak's Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim between Nostalgia and Apocalypse Marc Caplan 89

5 'The air outside is bloody': Leyb Kvitko and his Pogrom Cycle 1919 Sabine Koller 105

6 A Warm Morning Gown and a Shawl from Berlin: Liebe Zaltsman's Yiddish Letters to Helene Koigen Verena Dohrn 123

7 The Berlin Bureau of the New York Forverts Gennady Estraikh 141

8 Max Weinreich in Weimar Germany Amy Blau 163

9 Reports from the 'Republic Lear': David Eynhorn in Weimar Berlin 1920-24 Anne-Christin Sass 179

10 Jewish Universalism, the Yiddish Encyclopedia, and the Nazi Rise to Power Barry Trachtenberg 195

11 Yiddish, the Storyteller, and German-Jewish Modernism: A New Look at Alfred Döblin in the 1920s Jonathan Skolnik 215

12 Between Literature and History: Israel Joshua Singer's Berlin Novel The Family Carnovsky as a Cul-de-Sac of the German-Jewish 'Symbiosis' Elvira Grözinger 224

13 Unkind Mirrors: Berlin in Three Yiddish Novels of the 1930s Mikhail Krutikov 239

Index 263