A Yiddish Bard in Berlin: Moyshe Kulbak and the Flourishing of Yiddish Poetry in Exile

In 1920 the Yiddish poet Moyshe Kulbak left his native Vilna to resettle temporarily in Berlin. His three-year sojourn in the Weimar metropolis was both the loneliest and the most prolific time of his life. Propelled into the heartland of European Kultur yet consigned to the margins of both German s...

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Main Author: Seelig, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2012
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2012, Volume: 102, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-49
Further subjects:B Transnational
B Kulbak
B Weimar
B Interwar
B Berlin
B Yiddish
B Poetry
B Extraterritorial
B Exile
B Modernism
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