Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Weimar and Now
Part I. Spectral Empires: Landscapes, Nation-States, and the Homelessness of Weimar Modernism
1. A Past Become Space: Alfred Döblin and Dovid Bergelson in Poland, the Soviet Union-and Berlin
2. At the Crossroads of the Twentieth Century: Neue Sachlichkeit and Dovid Bergelson's Berlin Stories
Part II. Melancholic Conspiracies: Masks, Masques, and Baroque Aesthetics in Yiddish and German Modernism
3. Watch the Throne: The Baroque, the Gothic, and Symbolism in Der Nister's Early Stories
4. Harold Lloyd and the Hermit: Popular Culture, Gothic Aesthetics, and the End of Der Nister's Symbolist Career
Part III. Apocalyptic Origins: The Politics of Nostalgia in German and Yiddish Modernism
5. Arrested Development: Fragmentation, Apocalypse, and the Pursuit of Origins in Joseph Roth's Representation of Eastern Europe
6. Moyshe Kulbak's Berlin Writings: Here, There, Everywhere (Nowhere)
Conclusion: Origin Is the Goal
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author.