Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.
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