Journeys Beyond The Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing In The Modern World Project Muse Upcc Books

Journeys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. frontmattertitle (page pagenumber) Acknowledgments (page xi) 1 Introduction (page 3) 2 The Road (page 27) 3 The Train (page 90) 4 The Ship (page 123) 5 Conclusion (page 166) Notes (page 175) Bibliography (page 203) Index (page 218) An examination of how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. Leah Garrett. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 203-217) And Index.