Strangers in Berlin : modern Jewish literature between East and West, 1919-1933 /

Strangers in Berlin : modern Jewish literature between East and West, 1919-1933 /

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Author / Creator:	Seelig, Rachel, author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures.
Subject:	Jewish literature -- Europe -- History and criticism. European literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Jewish literature. Europe. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10907204

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Varying Form of Title:	Modern Jewish literature between East and West, 1919-1933
ISBN:	9780472130092 0472130099 9780472122288 0472122282
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrantmoment 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, thisis 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.

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