Ascent to Hell: The Poetics of Deconstruction in Peretz Markish and Andrei Platonov
In her seminal study of modernisms, Chana Kronfeld identifies the poetics of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures as processes of deterritorialization. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Yiddish—that stateless tongue par excellence—found official status within the new “international state” of the Soviet Union. Thi...