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BETWEEN GERMAN AND HEBREW - LINA BAROUCH GEBUNDEN

This book traces the German-Hebrew contact zones in which Gershom Scholem  Werner Kraft and
Ludwig Strauss lived and produced their creative work in early twentieth-century Germany and
later in British Mandate Palestine after their voluntary or forced migration in the 1920s and
1930s. Set in shifting historical contexts and literary debates the notion of the German
vernacular nation  Hebraism and Jewish Revival in Weimar Germany  the crisis of language in
modernist literature  and the fledgling multilingual communities in Jerusalem  the writings of
Scholem  Kraft and Strauss emerge as unique forms of counterlanguage. The three chapters of the
book are dedicated to Scholem s Hebraist lamentation  Kraft s Germanist steadfastness and
Strauss s polyglot dialogue  respectively. The examination of their correspondences  diaries 
scholarship and literary oeuvres demonstrates how counteractive writing practices helped
confront concrete and metaphorical crises of language to producecompelling alternatives to
literary silence  amnesia or paralysis that were prompted by cultural marginality and
dislocation.

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