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Diary of a Bad Yiddishist

Bluma Lange

Occasional and eclectic forays into the life and works of Yiddish poet, playwright and journalist H. Leivick (1888-1962)

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Leivick and Dostoevsky, Part 2

Picking up from last week, here’s Leivick’s promised second article on Dostoevsky.


Great Senselessness: Dostoyevsky and Antisemitism — The Debate Which is Now Ongoing — Tog, 27 September, 1952

As I wrote in my previous article...

12 days ago

Leivick and Dostoevsky

Now that we’ve had a look at Leivick and Chekhov, I’m going to page back to before1 that first article about Hamsun and ‘Jew-hate,’ where Leivick first allows himself to broach the ‘painful’ subject of Dostoevsky:

If Jews can become vili...

19 days ago
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Leivick and Chekhov

Returning to the subject of Leivick as a Russian writer (I previously paused over his poetic treatment of the death of Sergei Yesenin), I want to begin to approach what I see as the heart of the matter — Leivick’s relationship to Dostoevsky...

a month ago
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A Queer, Sultry Summer

Recently The Atlantic published an article about the Rosenbergs’ children which brought Leivick’s own take on the case to mind. And which reminds, once again, that none of this is distant history — everything here is within touching distanc...

a month ago
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Operation Alert

Last time, we had Leivick’s reflections on the Hiroshima Maidens and the Civil Defense Agency’s ‘Operation Alert’ — a drill that took place across around 200 American cities. Roughly 15,000 Military and Government officials were evacuated,...

a month ago
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