Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter New Year the dissonance was clear and

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Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century by Allison Schachter New Year the dissonance was clear andPairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the relationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers were registered in the innovative practices of modernist prose fiction. The Jewish writers discussed including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil,