TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stenberg,Peter A.
TI  - Journey to Oblivion: The End of the East European Yiddish and German Worlds in the Mirror of Literature 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9781487584986
AV  - PJ5120.7.H64 S74 1991eb
U1  - 839/.0909358 21
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - German fiction
KW  - Jewish authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Germans
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
KW  - Jews
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Judaism and literature
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Forced repatriation
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - Yiddish fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Before the Second World War, some 25 million people in Eastern Europe spoke Yiddish or German. Their numbers had grown over 750 years. The two language groups spread and developed in relative isolation from each other, though they occupied much the same territory and experienced similar fates during the Russian Revolution. In this book, Peter Stenberg uses literature to trace the destinies of these two separate but related language groups. He analyses works by well-known writers such as Aleichem, Singer, and Roth, and by others lesser known, such as Granach and Franzos, to show how the stability of the world of the Jewish shtetl began to erode because of pressures from within and without during the early part of this century. The annihilation of the Yiddish world in the genocide of the Second World War is described in novels by Hilsenrath, Becker, and Steinke. The destruction and expulsion of much of the Baltic-German and Mennonite communities in the Russian Revolution are described by von Vegesack and Neufeld respectively: those events provides a dramatic backdrop for the fate of almost all the East European Germans at the end of the Second World War, as fictionalized in novels by Bobrowski, Wolf, Lenz, and Bienek. Using epic works of literature, Journey to Oblivion examines the two linguistically related cultures and how their symbiotic relationship ended in a macabre dance of death
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