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February 25, 2022
When Yiddish Poetry Flourished in the Cafés of Weimar Berlin
Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold.
In the 1920s, Berlin became home to some of the most creative poets, novelists, and critics writing in Yiddish. Mostly natives of Poland and Russia who had come to Germany following the upheavals of World War I and the Russian Revolution, these authors lived in close proximity to—but apart from—an equally vibrant German-language Jewish culture. Madeleine Cohen reviews two recent books about this particular milieu, alongside a new translation of one of its “masterpieces,” the poet and novelist Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold of Dysna. About the last, she writes:
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When Yiddish Poetry Flourished in the Cafés of Weimar Berlin
Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold.