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

by Joseph Sherman

Overview

Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe's most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from the Kiev literary tradition, Markish always went his own way in a literary career spanning four decades and embracing almost

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351578165
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joseph Sherman

Table of Contents

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.