What is it about?
The beginning of modern Yiddish narrative.
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Why is it important?
Sea travel is a genre that brings Hebrew and Yiddish back to reality.
Perspectives
The beginning of modern Jewish literature predates by two generations the period that is usually discussed. For this reason, I refer to "pre-Zionist studies," refusing to see Jewish literary history through the prism of Zionism.
Prof. Ken Frieden
Syracuse University
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This page is a summary of: Literary Innovation in Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives, 1815-24, Poetics Today, September 2014, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2803446.
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