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Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn

Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue Harrison’s concept of “heterochronicity”—the ability to embody many ages at once—to investigate how a young Yiddish poet textualized old age and age ambiguity in his early work. To do so, the article first investigates the cultural assumptions concerning age in European Yiddish writing circulating toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It then turns to Glatshteyn’s early work, “Mayne lider” (My Poems), in which the heterochronic management of old age functions as a rejoinder to Glatshteyn’s American Yiddish literary predecessors and as a model of his modernist poetics. Finally, the article turns its attention to Glatshteyn’s 1925 poem “Tsu mayn tsveyhundertyorikn geburtstog” (“On the Occasion of My Two-Hundredth Birthday”), analyzing the text as a tendentious reading of T. S. Eliot and the hierarchy of Yiddish-English difference. To grow old in Yiddish was not simply a biological experience for Glatshteyn. Rather, it was an aesthetic commitment—a mode of writing energized by heterochronic entanglements, intertextual confrontation, and the intersecting age-driven assumptions of Yiddish literature and Anglo-American modernism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn

Yudkoff, Sunny S.
Comparative Literature , Volume 74 (1) – Mar 1, 2022
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This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue Harrison’s concept of “heterochronicity”—the ability to embody many ages at once—to investigate how a young Yiddish poet textualized old age and age ambiguity in his early work. To do so, the article first investigates the cultural assumptions concerning age in European Yiddish writing circulating toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It then turns to Glatshteyn’s early work, “Mayne lider” (My Poems), in which the heterochronic management of old age functions as a rejoinder to Glatshteyn’s American Yiddish literary predecessors and as a model of his modernist poetics. Finally, the article turns its attention to Glatshteyn’s 1925 poem “Tsu mayn tsveyhundertyorikn geburtstog” (“On the Occasion of My Two-Hundredth Birthday”), analyzing the text as a tendentious reading of T. S. Eliot and the hierarchy of Yiddish-English difference. To grow old in Yiddish was not simply a biological experience for Glatshteyn. Rather, it was an aesthetic commitment—a mode of writing energized by heterochronic entanglements, intertextual confrontation, and the intersecting age-driven assumptions of Yiddish literature and Anglo-American modernism.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2022

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    Gilman, Ernest B
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev Glatshteyn,
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev Glatshteyn,
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev Glatshteyn,
  • On My Two-Hundredth Birthday
    Glatshteyn, Yankev Harshav, Harshav,
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev Landis, Joseph C.
  • Tsela-tseldi
    Glatshteyn, Yankev Glatshteyn,
  • Tsu mayn tsveyhundertyorikn geburtstog
    Glatshteyn, Yankev
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    Glatshteyn, Yankev Leyeles, A. Minkov, N. Norich, Anita Harshav, Harshav,
  • German and Yiddish in the Poetry of Jacob Glatstein
    Hadda, Janet
  • Language: Yiddish
    Katz, Dovid
  • What Is Yiddish Literary Tradition? The Soviet Marxist Moshe Litvakov Versus the American Modernist Mikhl Likht
    Krutikov, Mikhail
  • Forvort
    Landoy, Zishe
  • [Anglo American Free Verse and Us]
    Leyeles, A. Harshav, Harshav,
  • Di—on traditsye
    Leyvik, H.
  • Zeks lider fun Mikhl Likht
    Likht, Mikhl
  • Ikh hob mayn mames shvartse hor
    Mani, Leyb
  • On traditsiyes
    Mani, Leyb
  • Printing and Publishing: Printing and Publishing after 1800
    Moss, Kenneth B
  • The Young Glatstein and the Structure of His First Book of Poems
    Novershtern, Abraham
  • Vos felt undzer literatur?
    Peretz, I. L.
  • What Our Literature Needs
    Peretz, I. L. Howe, Irving Halper, Nathan
  • The Fragmented Self: Individualism in Yiddish Introspectivism
    Ponichtera, Sarah
  • Elul: Nisayon avtobiyografi
    Preil, Gabriel
  • Louis Zukofsky and Mikhl Likht, ‘A Test of Jewish American Modernist Poetics.’
    Resnikoff, Ariel
  • Stempenyu
    Sholem, Aleichem
  • Undzer poezye feln klasiker
    Tabachnik, A.
  • Tradition
    Harshav, Harshav,
  • Di Yunge and the Problem of Jewish Aestheticism
    Wisse, Ruth R
  • The Americanization of Tevye; or, Boarding the Jewish Mayflower
    Wolitz, Seth L
  • The Narrowing of the Creative Vein: Yankev Glatshteyn and the Poetics of Sclerosis
    Yudkoff, Sunny S