The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives : In Memory of I.L. Peretz.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Instead of a Prologue -- Part One: Literature -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Part Two: Culture -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Part Three: History -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty One -- Chapter Twenty Two -- Part Four: Perceptions from the Outside -- Chapter Twenty Three -- Chapter Twenty Four -- Chapter Twenty Five -- Instead of an Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index of Names.

Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852-1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Peretz's work, but, rather, discusses the oeuvre of other unique authors in the cultural space of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe generally, and in Poland particularly. The book looks at this issue from three aspects, namely the literal, cultural, and historical, and also examines the dialogue of Polish Jewish literature with other languages and cultures.

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