From Kabbalah to Class Struggle : Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life an...
ISBN: 9780804770071 | 0804770077
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 11/9/2010
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From Kabbalah to Class Struggleis an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating glimpse into the complexities and controversies of Jewish intellectual and cultural history of pre-war Europe. Wiener made a remarkable career as a Yiddish scholar and writer in the Stalinist Soviet Union and left an unfinished novel about Jewis... MORE
| Illustrations | p. vii |
| A Note on Transliteration | p. ix |
| Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction: Why Meir Wiener? | p. 1 |
| Failed Messiahs: German-Jewish Culture | p. 11 |
| Politics and Scholarship in Post-War Vienna | p. 54 |
| On the Way to Yiddish and Emigration | p. 101 |
| Soviet Beginnings | p. 135 |
| Folklore, Language, and the Haskalah | p. 168 |
| Realism and the Yiddish Literary Canon | p. 205 |
| Soviet Literature and Theory | p. 251 |
| History and Fiction | p. 283 |
| Life Writing: Between the Usable and Unusable Past | p. 310 |
| Conclusion | p. 335 |
| Notes | p. 343 |
| Bibliography of Meir Wiener's Works in Chronological Order | p. 371 |
| Index | p. 375 |
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Mikhail Krutikov is Assistant Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford University Press, 2001).
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