At the World’s Door
David Hofshteyn 1889-1952
Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Harriet Murav
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ISBN: 978-1-839544-30-9 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-839544-31-6 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839544-32-3 (JSTOR ebook) This is the first academic volume on one of the greatest Yiddish lyrical voices of the 20th century, Ukrainian born David Hofshteyn, and an addition to the already published Legenda volumes devoted to the victims of repressions in the Soviet Union. Previous studies focused on David Bergelson, Peretz Markish and Der Nister. All of them were associated with the Kyiv Group of Yiddish writers, who dominated the Yiddish literary scene in post-revolutionary Ukraine and later in the Soviet Union. The essays discuss Hofshteyn’s poetry, dramatic works, life decisions, language choices, commitments to the Soviet project, and lifelong concern for the survival of the Jewish people. Contributors to the volume address the significance of translation as a key dimension of the poet’s career, focusing both on Hofshteyn’s work as a translator, his contacts with Ukrainian writers, and Ukrainian translations of the poet. Fresh approaches to Hofshteyn’s work in the 1940s reveal surprising continuities with his much more well-known poetry of the first quarter of the twentieth century. New archival sources reveal much about the poet in the immediate postwar years. Special attention has been paid to his fascination with Hebrew and his involvement in the activities of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Bibliography entry: Estraikh, Gennady, and Harriet Murav (eds), At the World’s Door: David Hofshteyn 1889-1952, Studies In Yiddish, 17 (Legenda, 2026) First footnote reference: 35 At the World’s Door: David Hofshteyn 1889-1952, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Harriet Murav, Studies In Yiddish, 17 (Legenda, 2026), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Estraikh and Murav, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Estraikh, Gennady, and Harriet Murav (eds). 2026. At the World’s Door: David Hofshteyn 1889-1952, Studies In Yiddish, 17 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Estraikh and Murav 2026: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Estraikh and Murav 2026: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/At-Worlds-Door www.mhra.org.uk/publications/siy-17 |
October 2026