The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction

Ritchie Robertson; Joseph Sherman

The Yiddish Presence in European Literature
Inspiration and Interaction
Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference

Edited by Joseph Sherman and Ritchie Robertson

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National and cultural identity

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Studies In Yiddish 5

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13 September 2005 • 170pp

ISBN: 1-900755-83-1 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

ISBN: 978-1-351197-31-1 (Taylor & Francis ebook)

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Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right, and one moreover that was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other European languages steadily became aware of the status and richness of the Yiddish language, sometimes by encountering Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe, and they responded to Yiddish language and culture in their own works, while Yiddish writers adopted, and sometimes anticipated, modern trends in other European literatures known to them. The collection of papers in this volume examines some of these fruitful interactions between Yiddish and the European literary tradition, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present, from France to Lithuania, and from classic modernist writers such as Kafka to Imre Kertész (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2002).

Joseph Sherman is University Research Lecturer in Yiddish in the University of Oxford and Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Ritchie Robertson is Professor of German and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Reviews:

‘This excellent volume makes a most welcome contribution to the field of Jewish comparative literary studies.’ — Hugh Denman, Modern Language Review 102.2, April 2007, 600-02 (full text online)

Contents:

1-6	Introduction Gennady Estraikh, Ritchie Robertson	Cite
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7-12	‘When Purim-shpiler meets Columbine’: Characters of Commedia dell’arte and Purimshpil in the Works of Moyshe Broderzon Gilles Rozier	Cite
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13-21	In the Worst Possible Taste: Romain Gary’s Dance of Genghis Cohn David Bellos	Cite
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22-33	‘Muthwillige Faschingstracht’: The Presence of Yiddish in Nineteenth-Century German Literature Florian Krobb	Cite
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34-44	Kafka’s Encounter with the Yiddish Theatre Ritchie Robertson	Cite
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45-72	Translating Yiddish: Martin Buber and David Pinski David Groiser	Cite
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73-86	Yiddish Author as Cultural Mediator: Meir Wiener’s Unpublished Novel Mikhail Krutikov	Cite
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87-98	The Romance of the East: Encounters of German-Jewish Writers with Yiddish-Speaking Communities, 1916-27 David Midgley	Cite
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99-107	Intimacy and Alienation: Yiddish in the Works of Jurek Becker Pól Ó Dochartaigh	Cite
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108-116	‘Living through Something’: Notes on the Work of Imre Kertész Peter Sherwood	Cite
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117-133	Bergelson and Chekhov: Convergences and Departures Joseph Sherman	Cite
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134-152	Shmuel Gordon: A Yiddish Writer in ‘the Ocean of Russian Literature’ Gennady Estraikh	Cite
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The Yiddish Presence in European LiteratureInspiration and InteractionSelected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference

Edited by Joseph Sherman and Ritchie Robertson

The Yiddish Presence in European Literature
Inspiration and Interaction
Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference