Between Old and New: The Cultural Avant-Garde

While some saw Yiddish as a humble folk language, a generation of radical writers and artists transformed it into a vehicle for cutting-edge modernist experimentation. This lecture explores the paradox at the heart of Yiddish modernism: how writers like Der Nister, Devorah Fogel, and Itzik Manger created innovative literature that rivaled any European avant-garde movement. Their work proves that Yiddish was not just a language of tradition but a laboratory for literary experimentation.

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