Allison Schachter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Schachter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Schachter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACHTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0017-1858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Integrating Payor-Segregated Outpatient Obgyn Care Models
Although clinicians expressed unity around the concept of integrating ambulatory care delivery, a path toward implementing an alternative model of care remains unclear. This study provides initial insights into disparities in ambulatory OBGYN care and may guide health systems considering care integration
Lorraine Hansberry and Race Politics in Postwar American Intellectual Life
This essay reads Lorraine Hansberry as an important voice on U.S. postwar race politics and the Holocaust. The article argues that Hansberry’s 1964 play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, examines the vexed legacy of Nazism for American intellectual life in the 1960s . Critics have struggled to understand the play’s politics and its focus on a Jewish intellectual. This essay shows that Sidney is the key to grappling with the play’s radical po…
Applying a behavioral science lens to maternity care in Liberia
Delivery in well-equipped facilities is important to prevent the major causes of maternal mortality. Social and structural barriers are well established across low-resource contexts; less understood is the interaction between the psychological dimensions of behavior and a pregnant woman's environment to either facilitate or hinder facility delivery. We conducted formative research applying the behavioral design approach to explore this context sh…
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939
Men Reading Women
This essay argues that women's active participation in modern Jewish culture shaped modern Jewish masculinity. I examine this phenomenon by looking at how women figured in the writings of Jewish men as symbols of a new cultural modernity, showing how male writers orient themselves in relationship to women. The article focuses on the works of two well-known and popular writers, Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) and Sholem Aleichem (1856–1916), one America…
Strangers in Berlin
A Non-Universal Global
In our introduction to this special issue of Prooftexts , we continue our collaborative investigation of the multifacted relationship between Jewish literature and world literature, critiquing the dominant scholarly paradigms informing each of these two discourses. We argue that the decentered model of Jewish literatures exposes the limits of a world literature model defined through literary competition and exchange between nations, where "the wo…
Jewish Literature / World Literature
In the past two decades, scholars of world literature and transnational literary studies have called for an overhaul of the national literature model, in favor of a model based on literature's movement beyond national boundaries. Yet across the spectrum of approaches, scholarship on world literature has focused on the languages of the metropolitan center while largely overlooking the literary cultures of the so-called peripheries. We examine Jewi…
Diasporic ModernismsHebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century
Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers—including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil, and Kadia Molodowsky—who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew. Sch…
Discovering Exile
Book Review| September 01 2009 Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity Allison Schachter Allison Schachter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 635–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison Schachter; Discovering Exile: …
Bergelson and the landscape of Yiddish modernism
This article examines Dovid Bergelson’s modernist writing in relationship to the shifting geography of Yiddish culture after World War I. During the 1920s, a series of debates raged in the Yiddish press about the true centre of Yiddish literature. These discussions about Yiddish literary centres, including Bergelson’s own polemic, “Dray tsentern” (Three centres), were also aesthetic debates regarding the future direction of Yiddish literature in …
The Shtetl and the City
S. Y. Abramovitsh's two novels, Ba-yamim ha-hem (Of Bygone Days) and Shloyme reb khayims (Shloyme the Son of Khayim), Yiddish and Hebrew versions of the same novel, have been read by critics across the ideological spectrum as sentimental novels, not central to the author's corpus. This article offers a reconsideration of these novels, arguing that they represent Abramovitsh's attempt to transform himself into a modern Jewish writer, moving away f…
The Shtetl and the City
S. Y. Abramovitsh's two novels, Ba-yamim ha-hem (Of Bygone Days) and Shloyme reb khayims (Shloyme the Son of Khayim), Yiddish and Hebrew versions of the same novel, have been read by critics across the ideological spectrum as sentimental novels, not central to the author's corpus. This article offers a reconsideration of these novels, arguing that they represent Abramovitsh's attempt to transform himself into a modern Jewish writer, moving away f…
Bergelson and the landscape of Yiddish modernism
This article examines Dovid Bergelson’s modernist writing in relationship to the shifting geography of Yiddish culture after World War I. During the 1920s, a series of debates raged in the Yiddish press about the true centre of Yiddish literature. These discussions about Yiddish literary centres, including Bergelson’s own polemic, “Dray tsentern” (Three centres), were also aesthetic debates regarding the future direction of Yiddish literature in …
The Shtetl and the City
S. Y. Abramovitsh's two novels, Ba-yamim ha-hem (Of Bygone Days) and Shloyme reb khayims (Shloyme the Son of Khayim), Yiddish and Hebrew versions of the same novel, have been read by critics across the ideological spectrum as sentimental novels, not central to the author's corpus. This article offers a reconsideration of these novels, arguing that they represent Abramovitsh's attempt to transform himself into a modern Jewish writer, moving away f…
The Shtetl and the City
S. Y. Abramovitsh's two novels, Ba-yamim ha-hem (Of Bygone Days) and Shloyme reb khayims (Shloyme the Son of Khayim), Yiddish and Hebrew versions of the same novel, have been read by critics across the ideological spectrum as sentimental novels, not central to the author's corpus. This article offers a reconsideration of these novels, arguing that they represent Abramovitsh's attempt to transform himself into a modern Jewish writer, moving away f…
Bergelson and the landscape of Yiddish modernism
This article examines Dovid Bergelson’s modernist writing in relationship to the shifting geography of Yiddish culture after World War I. During the 1920s, a series of debates raged in the Yiddish press about the true centre of Yiddish literature. These discussions about Yiddish literary centres, including Bergelson’s own polemic, “Dray tsentern” (Three centres), were also aesthetic debates regarding the future direction of Yiddish literature in …
Discovering Exile
Book Review| September 01 2009 Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity Allison Schachter Allison Schachter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 635–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allison Schachter; Discovering Exile: …
Diasporic ModernismsHebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century
Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers—including S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, Gabreil Preil, and Kadia Molodowsky—who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew. Sch…
Jewish Literature / World Literature
In the past two decades, scholars of world literature and transnational literary studies have called for an overhaul of the national literature model, in favor of a model based on literature's movement beyond national boundaries. Yet across the spectrum of approaches, scholarship on world literature has focused on the languages of the metropolitan center while largely overlooking the literary cultures of the so-called peripheries. We examine Jewi…
A Non-Universal Global
In our introduction to this special issue of Prooftexts , we continue our collaborative investigation of the multifacted relationship between Jewish literature and world literature, critiquing the dominant scholarly paradigms informing each of these two discourses. We argue that the decentered model of Jewish literatures exposes the limits of a world literature model defined through literary competition and exchange between nations, where "the wo…
Strangers in Berlin
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939
Men Reading Women
This essay argues that women's active participation in modern Jewish culture shaped modern Jewish masculinity. I examine this phenomenon by looking at how women figured in the writings of Jewish men as symbols of a new cultural modernity, showing how male writers orient themselves in relationship to women. The article focuses on the works of two well-known and popular writers, Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) and Sholem Aleichem (1856–1916), one America…
Applying a behavioral science lens to maternity care in Liberia
Delivery in well-equipped facilities is important to prevent the major causes of maternal mortality. Social and structural barriers are well established across low-resource contexts; less understood is the interaction between the psychological dimensions of behavior and a pregnant woman's environment to either facilitate or hinder facility delivery. We conducted formative research applying the behavioral design approach to explore this context sh…
Integrating Payor-Segregated Outpatient Obgyn Care Models
Although clinicians expressed unity around the concept of integrating ambulatory care delivery, a path toward implementing an alternative model of care remains unclear. This study provides initial insights into disparities in ambulatory OBGYN care and may guide health systems considering care integration
Lorraine Hansberry and Race Politics in Postwar American Intellectual Life
This essay reads Lorraine Hansberry as an important voice on U.S. postwar race politics and the Holocaust. The article argues that Hansberry’s 1964 play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, examines the vexed legacy of Nazism for American intellectual life in the 1960s . Critics have struggled to understand the play’s politics and its focus on a Jewish intellectual. This essay shows that Sidney is the key to grappling with the play’s radical po…
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