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This ground-breaking collection features the oeuvre of Debora Vogel (1900-1942), a Modernist Polish and Yiddish writer, philosopher, translator, and art critic. The author’s poems are examples of Cubist-Constructivist experimentation in a language that is at once lyrical and philosophical.Vogel’s poetry challenges every notion of writing in Yiddish literature from the author’s lifetime to ours. The writer’s prose collection transplants experiments in photography, film, and painting, into the literary medium. Vogel’s articles deal with a variety of topics ranging from abstract art, and individual artists like Marc Chagall and Fernand Leger, to matters of applied arts, including discussions of the interiors of modern apartments, the typography of children’s books, and an overview of fashion exhibitions. In addition, Vogel’s essays examine racism and anti-Semitism, the tasks of progressive intellectuals’ engagement in the society, and the use of literary montage as a way literature ‘does politics.’ Vogel’s extensive travels to Berlin, Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris, and her intimate familiarity with the cityscapes of her native Lwów are reflected in her writings. Vogel’s multimodal writing could be read in conjunction with Giorgio de Chirico’s, Pablo Picasso’s, or El Lissitsky’s paintings, Max Ernst’s painterly and writerly experiments, or Fritz Lang’s, Dziga Vertov’s, and Sergei Eisenstein’s films. Lyubas situates Vogel as the key, yet unrecognized figure for thought and literature of the early and late 20th century, as well as a thinker whose insights are crucial to grasp the contemporary socio-political issues. This is the first collection of Vogel’s writings in English translation.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. --- Fogel, Devorah --- Vogel, Debora --- Vogel-Barenblüth, Debora --- Barenblüth, Debora Vogel --- -פאגעל, דבורה --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aaron Glantz-Leyeles. --- Bruno Schulz. --- Jewish writers. --- Marcus Ehrenpres. --- Melech Ravitch. --- Polish writes. --- Shlomo Bickel. --- Yiddish Modernists. --- Yiddish writers.

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Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their mere presence in Germany is symbolically important. In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, scholars of German-Jewish history, literature, film, television, and sociology illuminate important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.”

Jews --- History --- Jewish life, Germany, rebuilding communities, Jewish life in Germany, post-Holocaust, post-World War II, Jewish community, Jewish writers, German-Jewish history, West Germany, Israel, East Germany, Jewish intellectuals, Soviet Union, Jewish identity, Jewish studies, German studies, history, Jews in Germany, German-Jewish relations, Russian Jews in Germany, Jewish community in Germany.

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The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era.

Judaism --- Greek literature --- Hellenism. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Hellenism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Literature and Judaism --- Literature --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Religions --- Semites --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Apologetic works --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- adaptation. --- alexander the great. --- ancient history. --- ancient jewish history. --- ancient jewish literature. --- ancient jews. --- antiquity. --- assimilation. --- conquerors. --- conquest. --- drama. --- dramatists. --- early judaism. --- epic poetry. --- greek. --- hellenic culture. --- hellenism. --- hellenistic judaisms. --- history. --- jewish history. --- jewish identity. --- jewish literature. --- jewish writers. --- jewish. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- macedonia. --- near east. --- nonfiction. --- philosophy. --- prophecy. --- prophets. --- religion. --- roman history. --- spirituality. --- theology.

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Intellectuals --- Middle class --- Intellectuels --- Classes moyennes --- History --- Histoire --- Russia --- URSS --- Russie --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- bourgeoisie (classe sociale) --- Élite (sciences sociales) --- vie intellectuelle --- 1917 --- Conditions sociales --- Acmeism. --- Bolshevism. --- Bulgakov, S. --- Café Pittoresque. --- Decembrists. --- Economic Discussions. --- Education Statute (1874). --- Free Economic Society. --- Free Russian Press. --- Gagarin family. --- Gilded Age, in Russia. --- Hobsbawm, E. --- Holy Synod. --- Jewish writers. --- Kantianism. --- Kornilov Affair. --- Luxemburg, R. --- Menshevism. --- Ministry of Internal Affairs. --- Moscow Legal Society. --- Peredvizhniki. --- aesthetism. --- agronomy. --- aristocracy. --- art patronage. --- autocracy. --- bureaucracy. --- business. --- cabarets. --- class struggle. --- cubo-futurism. --- dechristianization. --- division of labor. --- embourgeoisement. --- entrepreneurs. --- famine of 1891. --- gentry. --- guidebooks of Moscow. --- illegitimacy. --- industrialists. --- industrialization. --- industry. --- kupechestvo. --- liberalism. --- magic lantern show. --- merchant-entrepreneurs. --- nationalism. --- neo-Slavophilism. --- neoclassicism. --- obshchina. --- petroleum industry. --- professionalization. --- progressist movement. --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) --- Classe moyenne --- Petite bourgeoisie --- Bourgeoisie --- Hommes des classes moyennes --- Femmes des classes moyennes --- Classes sociales --- Élites (sciences sociales) --- Establishment --- Haute société --- Notables --- Société, Haute --- Dignitaires --- Élitisme --- Femmes du monde --- Personnel hautement qualifié --- Classes dirigeantes --- Hommes du monde --- Pouvoir communautaire --- Évergétisme --- Groupes sociaux --- Leadership --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Table des Rangs (Russie)