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Kajet : a journal of Eastern European encounters
\"The ethos of Kajet is to bring unexplored and/or neglected Eastern European narratives to an English-speaking audience.\"
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Jewish Culture between Renaissance and Decadence: \Di Literarishe Monatsshriften\ and Its Critical Reception
From the late eighteenth century on, adherents of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, began to cultivate new literary genres like the epic poem and satirical prose or drama in Hebrew and in a more limited sense in Yiddish as vehicles of ethical and religious instruction, intellectual enlightenment and practical education, and linguistic revitalization and aesthetic elevation (in the case of Hebrew poetry); these genres and the larger Enlightenment vision that motivated Haskalah literature were drawn from the European metropolitan cultures, particularly German culture, though they were initially also deeply rooted in the matrix of indigenous, traditional Jewish genres. [...]the exaltation of literature evident in the writings of Klausner and so many of his contemporaries at the turn of the century owed much to the influence of conceptions of literature prevalent in the metropolitan Russian and Polish cultures, wherein literature was accorded a quasi-religious status and the author celebrated as a creator of new values and alchemist of national consciousness. The tensions among the journal's stated goals of simultaneously cultivating Yiddish culture independently of any clear political end, championing literary trends that conflicted sharply with a dense array of aesthetic and ideological expectations common to the Jewish cultural sphere, and furthering the aims of Jewish nationalism render the journal's undertaking worthy of close examination. [...]I conclude with an analysis of the problematic relationship between Jewish cultural nationalism and Yiddish literature itself as exemplified in the journal.
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