Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish avant-gardes : the example of Markish and Shlonsky

This essay is an attempt at rethinking the connections between modernist Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry in the 1920s. It uses representative works and themes from two significant poets, Avraham Shlonsky in Hebrew and Perets Markish in Hebrew, to understand both the points of contact and discontinuity bet...

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Main Author: Finkin, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2007
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Summary:This essay is an attempt at rethinking the connections between modernist Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry in the 1920s. It uses representative works and themes from two significant poets, Avraham Shlonsky in Hebrew and Perets Markish in Hebrew, to understand both the points of contact and discontinuity between the two, and how in turn this understanding can help refine our understanding of the literary history of the period.