Overview

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of a strikingly original yet overlooked author, art critic, and intellectual, and resituates Vogel as an important figure in the constellation of European modernity. Vogel's astute observations on art, literature, and psychology in her essays, her bold prose experiments inspired by photography and film, and Cubist poetry that both challenges and captivates invite the reader on a journey of discovery-into the microcosm of the talented thinker marked by tragic fate and the macrocosm of Jewish history and Poland's turbulent twentieth century.

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Author:   Anastasiya Lyubas
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781644693919

ISBN 10:   1644693917
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   19 November 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgements Timeline of Vogel's Life and Work Translator's Scholarly Introduction Part I: ""An Attempt at New Style"": Debora Vogel's Poetry Selections from Day Figures Foreword to Day Figures Poetry Collection Rectangles (1924) Houses and Streets (1926) Tired Dresses (1925-1929) Tin (1929) Selections from Mannequins Mannequins (1930-1931) Drinking Songs Shoddy Ballads Afterword to Mannequins collection Part II: ""Marching Soldiers, and Blooming Acacias"": Debora Vogel's Lyrical Philosophical Prose Selections from the Polish and Yiddish bilingual collection, Acacias Bloom. Montages. Flower Shops with Azaleas (1933) Acacias Bloom (1932) Building of the Train Station (1931) Selections of prose from published and unpublished manuscripts Part III: Transformation of Form: Debora Vogel's Art of Essay Essays on Poetics ""White Words in Poetry"" ""First Yiddish Poets"" ""Stasis, Dynamism, and Their Relevance for Art"" ""Montage as a Literary Genre"" ""Literary Montage. An Introduction"" Anastasiya Lyubas/ book proposal/ 10 ""The Dialectical Novel"" Essays on Aesthetics, Applied Arts, and Individual Artists ""Theme and Form in Chagall's Art. An Aesthetic Critique"" ""On Abstract Art"" ""Henryk Streng, a Constructivist Painter"" ""Genealogy of Photomontage"" ""Legend of Contemporaneity in Children's Literature. Fragments"" ""Dwelling in its Psychic and Social Functions"" Essays on Socio-Critical Issues ""A Few Remarks on the Contemporary Intellectual Elite"" ""Lwów Jewry. An Expose for the Monograph about the Jewish Quarter in Lwów"" ""Exoticized People"" ""Courage in Solitude"" Part IV: Letters A Note on the Letters to Bruno Schulz Letters to Marcus Ehrenpreis Letters to Aaron Glantz-Leyeles Letters to Moshe Starkman Letters to Shlomo Bikl Letters to Ezekiel Brownstone Letters to Melech Ravitch Part V: Reviews and Polemics around Vogel's Work in the Yiddish and Polish Press Reviews of Day Figures & Mannequins Ber Shnaper. ""Cards on the Table. On Poetry, Market, and Cliches. (A Few Remarks on the New Collection of Poetry)"" J. A. Weisman. ""Debora Vogel and Her Monotony"" Itsik Schwartz. ""Modern Poetry. On Debora Vogel's Day Figures"" Mendel Neugroschl. ""The Last Generation of Yiddish Poets in Galicia. Debora Vogel and Hirsch Weber"" Joshue Rapoport. ""Apotheosis of Monotony"" Ber Shnaper.""The Lyric of Cool Stasis"" ""Debora Vogel's New Book Mannequins"" Aaron Glantz-Leyeles ""Undzer Bukh"" Reviews of Acacias Bloom Discussions of the Yiddish Edition of Acacias Bloom B. Alquit. ""Modern Prose"" Debora Vogel. ""Response to B. Alquit's review of Akatsies"" B. Alquit. ""Response to Debora Vogel's Letter"" Joshua Rapoport. ""Like a Squirrel on a Wheel"" Debora Vogel. ""A Couple Remarks Regarding my book Akatsies Blien"" Reviews of the Polish Edition of Acacias Bloom Zofia Nalkowska. ""Acacias Bloom"" Marian Prominski. ""Acacias Bloom"" Emil Breiter. ""Debora Vogel. Acacias Bloom. Montages"" Bruno Schulz. ""Acacias Bloom"" Notes Index"

Reviews

Regrettably, Vogel's writing has until now remained virtually unknown to English-language readers. With the invaluable new collection Blooming Spaces, Anastasiya Lyubas, a researcher at the University of Toronto, at last rescues Vogel from [Bruno] Schulz's shadow, restores the obliterated lines of continuity between her and us, and brings Vogel the attention commensurate with the full profusion of her talents. In translations that beautifully convey the cadences of the original, Lyubas gives us for the first time not only generous selections from Vogel's three books but also her essays--many with a sharp polemical bite--on photomontage and literary montage, on abstract art, on the painter Marc Chagall (whom she knew personally), on racism and antisemitism ('Exoticized People'), on the role of intellectuals, and on the history of secular Yiddish writing in Galicia. --Benjamin Balint, Jewish Review of Books

""With the invaluable new collection Blooming Spaces, Anastasiya Lyubas, a researcher at the University of Toronto, at last rescues Vogel from Schulz’s shadow, restores the obliterated lines of continuity between her and us, and brings Vogel the attention commensurate with the full profusion of her talents."" - Jewish Review of Books

Author Information

Anastasiya Lyubas, PhD (Binghamton University), is the Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto (2020-2021). She is the author of White Words: Essays, Letters, Reviews and Polemics by Debora Vogelpublished in Kyiv (2019). She has been a Research Fellow at MLCRC at Ryerson University, a Max Weinreich Research Fellow at YIVO, a Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and a Fulbright Scholar.

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