In Harness

Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism

By:

Gennady Estraikh

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Hardback

Series:

Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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Notables such as David Bergelson - who helmed the short-lived Yiddish periodical called In Harness - and Der Nister and David Hodshtein come to life as do Leyb Kvitko, Peretz Markish, Itsik Fefer, Moshe Litvakov, Yekhezkel Dobrushin, and Nokhum Oislender. Gennady J. Estraikh charts the course of their artistic and political flowering and decline and considers the effects of geography - provincial vs. urban - and party politics upon literary development and aesthetics. No other book concentrates on this aspect of the Jewish intellectual scene nor has any book unveiled the scale and intensity of Yiddish Communist literary life in the 1920s and 1930s or the contributions its writers made to Jewish culture.

Author Biography:

Gennady J. Estraikh is author of Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development and Intensive Yiddish. Coauthor of Yiddish and the Left and coeditor of The Shtetl: Image and Reality and Yiddish in the Contemporary World, he is the Rauch Visiting Professor of Yiddish studies at New York University.

Release date Australia

March 30th, 2005

Author

Gennady Estraikh

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

15 black and white illustrations

Pages

224

Series

Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780815630524

Product ID

6287007

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