
A Captive of the Dawn
The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952)
Joseph Sherman(Author)
Legenda (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 10. March 2011
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-906540-52-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
674 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906540-52-4 (9781906540524)
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Person
Joseph Sherman
Content
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