Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter New Year only on the lookout for

only on the lookout for a fat pocketbook

to an Italian pasta maker in New JerseyÑand on to a hunt across three continents for the pastry that shaped her identity

” —Cynthia OzickA Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best of times in North America—only to recognize that it could be moving back in the opposite direction

most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew

the dissonance was clear and their lifestyles so completely different

Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter New Year only on the lookout forPairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the relationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers were registered in the innovative practices of modernist prose fiction. The Jewish writers discussed including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil,