The Yiddish presence in European literature : inspiration and interaction : selected papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth Mendel Friedman Conferences in Yiddish / edited by Joseph Sherman and Ritchie Robertson.

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Corporate Authors: Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish Oxford, England, Modern Humanities Research Association, Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish
Other Authors: Robertson, Ritchie (Editor), Sherman, Joseph (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: [Abingdon] : [Routledge], [2017?]
Series:Studies in Yiddish ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.'When Purim-shpiler meets Columbine' : characters of Commedia dell'arte and Purimshpil in the works of Moyshe Broderzon /Gilles Rozier
  • 2. In the worst possible taste : Romain Gary's Dance of Genghis Cohn /David Bellos
  • 3.'Muthwillige Faschingstracht' : the presence of Yiddish in nineteenth-century German literature /Florian Krobb
  • 4. Kafka's encounter with the Yiddish theatre /Ritchie Robertson
  • 5. Translating Yiddish : Martin Buber and David Pinski /David Groiser
  • 6. Yiddish author as cultural mediator : Meir Wiener's unpublished novel /Mikhail Krutikov
  • 7.romance of the East : encounters of German-Jewish writers with Yiddish-speaking communities, 1916-27 /David Midgley
  • 8. Intimacy and alienation : Yiddish in the works of Jurek Becker /Pol O Dochartaigh
  • 9.'Living through something' : notes on the work of Imre Kertesz /Peter Sherwood
  • 10. Bergelson and Chekhov : convergences and departures /Joseph Sherman
  • 11. Shmuel Gordon : a Yiddish writer in 'the ocean of Russian literature' /Gennady Estraikh.