Representations of Crisis in the Yiddish Novel, 1905-1914 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture) (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

by Mikhail Krutikov (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $86.57

  This book examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Within Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of incursions and threats to traditional Jewish life. Writers explored these perceived crises in their work, in the process reconsidering the role and function of Yiddish literature itself.