Yfaat Weiss ist Professorin für Jüdische Geschichte an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem, steht dem Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow vor und ist Professorin für Neuere, insbesondere jüdische Geschichte, an der Universität Leipzig.Dr. Natasha Gordinsky ist Dozentin am Institut für hebräische und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Haifa.Efrat Gal-Ed is Professor of Yiddish Studies at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.Sabine Koller is Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg.

Yiddish and Hebrew literary voices of the first half of the twentieth century in multiethnic Eastern Europe.

The illustrated catalogue familiarizes the reader with the polyphony of the Yiddish and Hebrew literary voices of the first half of the twentieth century in multiethnic Eastern Europe.

From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ruptures of the era, many authors experimented with various modernist poetics in the context of a culturally and literarily closely interwoven milieu. This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents for the first time some of the key figures of the era, including in each case a portrait of the author and a close reading of selected texts, including Yosef Hayim Brenner, Leah Goldberg, Moyshe Kulbak, and Deborah Vogel. Of particular interest here is the productive entanglement of cultures and literatures, of cultural contact and transfer, and the significance of space and place for the development of modern Jewish literatures.