Captive of the Dawn

Joseph Sherman

• An Introduction: My Name is Now: Peretz Markish and the Literature of Revolution 1. Jewish Radicalism: Hebrew in Peretz Markish's Early Poetry 2. The Lighter Side of Babel: Peretz Markish's Urban Poetics 3. A Shout from Somewhere': The Early Work of Peretz Markish 4. The Language of Dispersion and Confusion: Peretz Markish's Manifestos from the Khalyastre Period 5. Peretz Markish and Literarishe Bleter (1924-1926) 6. Markish's Radyo (1922): Yiddish Modernism as Agitprop 7. Peretz Markish in the 1930s: Socialist Construction and the Return of the Luftmentsh 8. Markish's play The Ovadis Family and Soviet Jewish Policies, 1936-1941 9. Rivers of Blood: Peretz Markish, the Holocaust, and Jewish Vengeance 10. The Pen and the Sword: The Wartime Plays of Peretz Markish 11. Anti-Nazi Rebellion in Peretz Markish's Drama and Prose 12. Murdered Modernisms: Peretz Markish and the Legacy of Soviet Yiddish Poetry 13. A Bibliography of Peretz Markish

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