Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin - 9780253051981

Yiddish Writers in Weimar BerlinA Fugitive Modernism\nAuthor(s): Marc Caplan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253051981, 978-0253051981\nSynopsis\nIn 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 writersDovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbakworking 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. \n\n Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how a.