Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,2-3 (2021) 199-211
Keywords:
Leṿin, Khane,
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Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Esther, Criticism and interpretation
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Markish, Peretz,
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Die royte velt
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Yiddish poetry History and criticism
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Jews History 20th century
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Other (Philosophy)
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Crimea (Ukraine) In literature
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Crimea (Ukraine)
Abstract:
This article explores three Yiddish poets who placed Crimea at the center of a Jewish and proletarian world-building project. Khana Levin, Esther Shumiatsher, and Peretz Markish all published their work in the Kharkiv-based Yiddish journal Di royte velt (Red World) in the late 1920s and presented Crimea as a home for outsiders. The article begins with a discussion of Khana Levin’s Crimean Motifs. It next turns to Peretz Markish’s Brothers. The final case study is of Esther Shumiatsher. These three examples present Crimea as a site for Jewish writers to radically rethink what it meant to be an “Other” in Eastern Europe.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2022.2088362
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