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From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

Dan Miron

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780804762007

Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804762007.001.0001

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The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times

The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times

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(p.171) Six The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times
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From Continuity to Contiguity
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Stanford University Press
DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804762007.003.0006

This chapter discusses developments in Yiddish literature during the inter-bellum period. It describes how Hebrew and Yiddish literature began following their own paths, evidenced by modernistic outburst or surge in both literatures after World War I and the civil struggles that followed it. In Yiddish, this surge was far more sweeping and immediately influential since it was articulated mainly in a new kind of poetry. But by the mid-1920s the skies of Yiddish modernism gradually became overcast. The issue, which from now on would cast an ever-lengthening shadow, was that of the survival of Yiddish and of Yiddish literature.

Keywords:   Jewish literature, Yiddish literature, war years, World War I, Yiddish poetry, modernism

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