Ze Wschodu na Zachód: intelektualiści i pisarze żydowscy z Europy Wschodniej i ich niemieckie doświadczenie
From the West to the East: Intellectuals and Jewish Writers from Eastern Europe and Their German Experience. Jewish Literature

Author(s): Delphine Bechtel
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Jews; Germans; Jewish migration; cultural life of Berlin; modernism; communism; Yiddish literature
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on cultural life of the Jews from the East in exile in Berlin during the interwar period. The author looks at migrations of Jewish intellectuals and their life in exile, paying particular attention to the relationships between newcomers and the Jews living in Germany for years. The second topic of the article is the portrayal of Jewish immigrants in Germany in Yiddish literature by authors such as Lejb Kwitko and Dawid Bergelson. The author is particularly interested in the confrontation between the migrants and the new world, as well as their search for their own identity.

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