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An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.

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This book is deliciously subversive. Garrett demonstrates that the major writers in Yiddish, a language without its own territory, wrote as if their Jewish subjects lived and traveled freely at the center of the world; not on its margins, not in a ghetto, not in a valorized state of exile. - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary; ""Garrett's work goes a long way towards conceptualizing and analyzing a phenomenon omnipresent in Yiddish short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, combining theoretical considerations of the journey in general and specific, nuaneed readings of Jewish journeys in particular."" - Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University; ""This kind of scholarship is vital for the further progress in Yiddish studies and its integration into the mainstream humanities."" - Misha Krutikov, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies

Journeys Beyond the Pale Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 2/28/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299184445, 978-0299184445
      ISBN10: 0299184447
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      Literary studies: general Travel writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.

      Trade Review
      This book is deliciously subversive. Garrett demonstrates that the major writers in Yiddish, a language without its own territory, wrote as if their Jewish subjects lived and traveled freely at the center of the world; not on its margins, not in a ghetto, not in a valorized state of exile. - David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary; ""Garrett's work goes a long way towards conceptualizing and analyzing a phenomenon omnipresent in Yiddish short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, combining theoretical considerations of the journey in general and specific, nuaneed readings of Jewish journeys in particular."" - Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University; ""This kind of scholarship is vital for the further progress in Yiddish studies and its integration into the mainstream humanities."" - Misha Krutikov, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies

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