1st Edition

A Captive of the Dawn The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952)

By Joseph Sherman Copyright 2011
    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this book, the authors explore Peretz Markish's entire career from his famous early modernist poetry to his post-war Yiddish literature that responded to Nazi and Soviet state-sponsored violence, and everything in between.

    An Introduction: My Name is Now: Peretz Markish and the Literature of Revolution 1. Jewish Radicalism: Hebrew in Peretz Markish's Early Poetry 2. The Lighter Side of Babel: Peretz Markish's Urban Poetics 3. A Shout from Somewhere': The Early Work of Peretz Markish 4. The Language of Dispersion and Confusion: Peretz Markish's Manifestos from the Khalyastre Period 5. Peretz Markish and Literarishe Bleter (1924-1926) 6. Markish's Radyo (1922): Yiddish Modernism as Agitprop 7. Peretz Markish in the 1930s: Socialist Construction and the Return of the Luftmentsh 8. Markish's play The Ovadis Family and Soviet Jewish Policies, 1936-1941 9. Rivers of Blood: Peretz Markish, the Holocaust, and Jewish Vengeance 10. The Pen and the Sword: The Wartime Plays of Peretz Markish 11. Anti-Nazi Rebellion in Peretz Markish's Drama and Prose 12. Murdered Modernisms: Peretz Markish and the Legacy of Soviet Yiddish Poetry 13. A Bibliography of Peretz Markish

    Biography

    Joseph Sherman