Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,1 (2019) 20-41
Keywords:
Vogel, Debora,
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Jewish women philosophers
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Yiddish literature History and criticism
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Polish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Debora Vogel (1900–1942) helped develop modernism in Lviv in the interwar period. As a philosopher and writer, she was able to make connections between the dominant Polish school of philosophical logic (the so-called Lviv-Warsaw School) and the artistic circles in Lviv, to which Bruno Schulz, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Leon Chwistek belonged. Inspired by Cubism and Surrealism, but also by recent philosophical discussions, Vogel developed a writing technique called montage. In her poems and prose written in Yiddish and Polish, she reflected on the relationship between humans and modern urban architecture, playing with mathematical or geometric words and color predicates. At the same time she abandoned traditional narrative models with her style of writing. In view of the above, this article presents Vogel's experimental writing practices and aesthetics concepts by locating her work in Lviv's culture of knowledge.
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