A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through...

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1. Verfasser:	Torres, Anna Elena (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2024]
Schlagworte:	LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish Anarchism in literature Exiles in literature Jewish anarchists Jewish diaspora in literature Jewish diaspora Yiddish literature > History and criticism Yiddish literature > 20th century > History and criticism
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Zusammenfassung:	A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through a cast of historical characters, from the well known-such as Emma Goldman-to the more obscure, including an anarchist rabbi who translated the Talmud and a feminist doctor who organized for women's suffrage and against national borders. Its literary scope includes the Soviet epic poemas of Peretz Markish, the journalism and modernist poetry of Anna Margolin, and the early radical prose of Malka Heifetz Tussman. Anna Elena Torres examines Yiddish anarchist aesthetics from the nineteenth-century Russian proletarian immigrant poets through the modernist avant-gardes of Warsaw, Chicago, and London to contemporary antifascist composers. The book also traces Jewish anarchist strategies for negotiating surveillance, censorship, detention, and deportation, revealing the connection between Yiddish modernism and struggles for free speech, women's bodily autonomy, and the transnational circulation of avant-garde literature. Rather than focusing on narratives of assimilation, Torres intervenes in earlier models of Jewish literature by centering refugee critique of the border. Jewish deportees, immigrants, and refugees opposed citizenship as the primary guarantor of human rights. Instead, they cultivated stateless imaginations, elaborated through literature
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
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ISBN:	9780300274684
DOI:	10.12987/9780300274684