From Kabbalah to class struggle expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener /

Main Author: Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10459554
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why Meir Wiener?
  • Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture
  • Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna
  • On the way to Yiddish and emigration
  • Soviet beginnings
  • Folklore, language, and the haskalah
  • Yiddish realism and literary history
  • Soviet literature and theory
  • History and fiction
  • Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.