A Tale of the Murdered Shtetl: The Image of the Shtetl in Yiddish Literature in Post-war Poland.
This article discusses an ambivalent portrayal of the shtetl presented in the prose works of five Yiddish writers who were creatively active in the communist Poland: Leyb Olitsky, Mendel Tempel, Shlomo Strauss-Marko, Lili Berger and Kalman Segal. The theme of the shtetl is of a particular importance...
| Publicado en: | European Judaism Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 129 - 145 |
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Autumn2009
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