Milgroym, Rimon and Interwar Jewish Bilingualism

Brenner, Naomi

doi:10.1353/jji.2014.0009

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“…Iris Parush delineates two related themes that begin to emerge in texts like Tohu va-vohu: Frishman's belief that the creation of a national homeland was both impossible and inadvisable. 4 Frishman was deeply invested in questions of national revival, but he rejected both political and spiritual Zionism as solutions to the challenges facing Jews in the modern world. In 1899, only two years after the First Zionist Congress convened in Basel, Frishman writes in a letter to Mordecai (Marcus) Ehrenpreis: "I have never felt myself as lonely and solitary as now […].…”

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“…[2] Der yid hot gantse nekht getrakht un geshpign un gemakht in der mamen arayn: [3] -Staytsh, der yung est im op dem kop! [4] Un ersht in tkhiles-vesne, ven es hot ongehoybn lozn, iz er, ot der koltenevater yid, arayn a mol in shtibl mit a bahaltener gdule. [5] Er hot gebrakht a bamakhtn shtayg mit feygelekh, avekgeshtelt afn tish, un fun buzem hot er pamelekh genumen aroystsien Odeser toybn, pamelekh un opgehit, vi zey voltn dortn gevaksn bay im unter di pakhves.…”

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“…[2] Night after night, the man was thinking, spitting, and cursing like hell: [3] -The fact is, the lad is eating him out of house and home! [4] And only at the beginning of the spring, when the frost began to break, did he, this very shaggy man, enter the room one day with a hidden joy. [5] He brought in a filthy cage with birds in it, put it on the table, and began to pull Odessa pigeons slowly out of his breast pocket, slowly and carefully, as if they had grown under his armpits.…”

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“…"Staytsh, der yung est im op dem kop!" [4] His rough ways are emphasized gesturally, by his spitting and cursing. The Yiddish idiom used here to indicate cursing refers to the mother: "gemakht in der mamen arayn" [3].7 It is the only place in the passage where the word "mother" occurs.…”

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“…Bal-Makhshoves is a sagacious and reliable voice when tracing the formation of modern Jewish literatures. 4 This profound and far-reaching process began in the second half of the nineteenth century in Eastern Europe, primarily in provincial capitals and towns located in the historical region of the Jewish Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire. The historical, political, and sociocultural constellations of the time had a crucial impact on Jewish literary thinking.…”

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In Their Surroundings

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David Frishman was the preeminent critic of Hebrew literature in Eastern Europe during the last years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. He advocated passionately for the creation of a distinctly European Hebrew literature and rarely hesitated to castigate writers who failed, in his view, to develop lyricism and other aesthetic features he argued were essential. As a translator, he created Hebrew versions of many European fictional and philosophical works held in high regard, including texts by Friedrich Nietzsche, George Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. As an editor, he wielded power at many publishing venues for Hebrew writers young and old, such as Ha-Dor (The Generation), Ha-Boker (The Morning), Ha-Tekufah (The Era), and the Stybel publishing house. His literary work in Hebrew and Yiddish, however, was often overshadowed by his other literary pursuits. Still, Frishman's extensive efforts as a cultural agent left a lasting mark on the development of modern Hebrew literary culture.Born in Zgierz, near Łódź, in 1859,1 Frishman spent time in many of the centers of Jewish culture of the time: Warsaw, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Odessa (fig. 1). He started publishing poems, translations, and articles in Hebrew at a young age in a variety of Eastern European Hebrew periodicals. By the late 1880s, he was writing for the Yiddish press as well; his first Yiddish poem, Oyfn bergl (On the Hill), appeared in 1888. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Eastern European Yiddish newspapers such as Yudishes Folks-Blat (Jewish People's Newspaper), Der Yud (The Jew), Der Fraynd (The Friend), and Haynt (Today) were publishing his lyric

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