From Shtetl to Ghetto: Recognizing Yiddish in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums

This article has two aims: it seeks, first, to explore the German reception and translational context for Yiddish literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And second, it seeks to explore the problem of recognition in relation to this literary reception. In so doing, it respon...

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Main Author: Grossman, Jeffrey A. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2016
In: Naharaim
Year: 2016, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-244
Further subjects:B Yiddish Literature German Jewish culture Translation Recognition the Shtetl in literature I. L. Peretz Karl Emil Franzos
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