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Journeys beyond the Pale
Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
Leah V. Garrett


Passages into the modern world—by road, by train, and by ship

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.

"This book is deliciously subversive. Garrett demonstrates that the major writers in Yiddish, a language without its own territory, wrote as if their Jewish subjects lived and traveled freely at the center of the world; not on its margins, not in a ghetto, not in a valorized state of exile."
—David G. Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary

"Garrett's work goes a long way towards conceptualizing and analyzing a phenomenon omnipresent in Yiddish short stories, novels, poetry, and drama, combining theoretical considerations of the journey in general and specific, nuanced readings of Jewish journeys in particular."—Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University

Leah V. Garrett is assistant professor of Judaic studies and English literature at the University of Denver, Colorado.

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March 2003
LC: 2002010219 PJ
226 p
p.   6 x 9

Book icon Paper $19.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-18444-5
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