Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Prooftexts; a Journal of Jewish Literary History
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,1 (2020) 60-93
Keywords:
Lasker-Schüler, Else, Criticism and interpretation
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Greenberg, Uri Zvi, Criticism and interpretation
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German poetry Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Hebrew poetry History and criticism
;
Yiddish poetry History and criticism
;
Primitivism in literature
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Jews in literature
;
Zionism in literature
Abstract:
This article examines the shared primitivism of the German poet Else Lasker-Schüler and the Hebrew and Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. In her art and poetry, Lasker-Schüler imagined a bohemian utopia ruled by the Bund der wilden Juden, or Society of Savage Jews; Greenberg adopted this figure and turned it into an expression of his radical Zionism. This transformation of aesthetic to political sovereignty reveals one trajectory of Jewish primitivism, with the blurred boundary between Jewish and primitive identities mirroring the blurred boundary between divergent political agendas.
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