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An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Jordan D. Finkin
An Inch or Two of Time
VOLUME 3
DIMYONOT
Jews and the Cultural Imagination
תונוימד
samantha baskind, general editor
editorial board
Judith Baskin, University of Oregon
David Biale, University of California, Davis
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev
Laura Levitt, Temple University
David Stern, University of Pennsylvania
Ilan Stavans, Amherst College
Volumes in the Dimyonot series explore
Volumes in the Dimyonot series explore
the intersections, and interstices, of Jewish
the intersections, and interstices, of Jewish
experience and culture. These projects emerge
experience and culture. These projects
from many disciplines—including art,
emerge from many disciplines—including
history, language, literature, music, religion,
art, history, language, literature, music,
philosophy, and cultural studies—and diverse
religion, philosophy, and cultural
chronological and geographical locations. Each
studies—and diverse chronological and
volume, however, interrogatesvolume,
geographical locations. Each the multiple
and evolving representations of Judaism and
however, interrogates the multiple and
Jewishness, by both Jews andJudaism and
evolving representations of non-Jews, over
time and place. both Jews and non-Jews,
Jewishness, by
over time and place.
other titles in the series:
v o l u m e 1
David Stern, Christoph
Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni, eds.,
The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century
Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of
Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard
von Pappenheim
v o l u m e 2
Ranan Omer-Sherman,
Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in
Literature and Film
An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Jordan D. Finkin
The Pennsylvania State University Press
University Park, Pennsylvania
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finkin, Jordan D., 1976– , author.
An inch or two of time : time and space in
Jewish modernisms / Jordan D. Finkin.
pages
cm — (Dimyonot: Jews and the
cultural imagination)
Summary: “Explores the metaphorical power of
time and space in Jewish modernist poetry in
Hebrew and Yiddish as a response to the experience
of exile and landlessness, and as a means of
furthering modernism’s exploration of the self and
its relation to community, nation, and the world”—
Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-271-06641-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Hebrew poetry, Modern—20th century—
History and criticism.
2. Yiddish poetry—20th century—History and criticism.
3. Jewish poetry—20th century—
History and criticism.
4. Space and time in literature.
5. Modernism (Literature).
I. Title.
pj5024.f56 2015
892.41'609—dc23
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