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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791995003321

Autore

Krutikov Mikhail <1957->

Titolo

From Kabbalah to class struggle [[electronic resource] ] : expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / / Mikhail Krutikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7725-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

839/.1309

B

Soggetti

Authors, Yiddish - Soviet Union

Jewish critics - Soviet Union

Jewish scholars - Soviet Union

Yiddish literature - History and criticism

Marxist criticism - Soviet Union - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.

Sommario/riassunto

From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a 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.