Mahalel The Radical Isaac

I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9234-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahalel, Adi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intellectual and Historical Backdrop of Peretz’s Early Work, Outline, and Methodology

1. Education, Professions, and Literary Proclamations: Peretz between Warsaw Positivism and Proto-Socialism

2. A Radical Shift: Becoming a Social-Protest Writer

3. “To Be a Fighter with Both Fists!”: Peretz the Radical Hebrew Writer

4. On Love and Class War: Peretz’s 1890s Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry

5. Between Liberal Satire and Socialist Roots: Peretz’s Hasidic Creations of the 1890s

Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adi Mahalel is Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Maryland.