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Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other"--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written in two decentered languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a bold new model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically, and less in danger of universalizing the experience of minority writers. Kronfeld examines the interpenetrations of modernist groupings through examples of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. Her discussions of Amichai, Fogel, Raab, Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutskever will be welcomed by students of modernism in general and Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in particular.

Hebrew poetry, Modern --- Yiddish poetry --- Marginality, Social, in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Yiddish literature --- allusion. --- contraversions critical studies in jewish literature culture and society. --- david fogel. --- deleuze. --- diaspora. --- diversity. --- guattari. --- hebrew culture. --- hebrew literary history. --- historical studies. --- hofshteyn. --- imagist. --- jews. --- judaism. --- literary criticism. --- literary historiography. --- literary trend. --- markish. --- modern jewish literature. --- modernism. --- modernist hebrew poetry. --- modernity. --- moyshe leyb halpern. --- poems. --- poetry. --- religion. --- religious literature. --- stylistic. --- yehuda amichai. --- yiddish literary history.