Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener /
Mikhail Krutikov
xi, 392 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Realism and the Yiddish literary canon -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past