Jordan Finkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 535002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Finkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkin |
| SIGNATURE | FINKIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The View from the Jews’ Rock
While not a central locale in modern Jewish poetry, Crimea nevertheless garnered the attention of several important poets in significant works. Their interest was galvanized at the intersection of their individual biographies and earlier classic literature on Crimea and the Black Sea. This article will focus on key works by the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish as writers in Jewish languages, and will then turn …
The Revolution is a City
The trajectory of Moyshe Kulbak's biography (1896–1937), drawing him from small town to big city, mirrors that of many in his generation. The image of the city in tension with that small town, or rather its replacement – nature – haunts so much of his greatest work. The urban dimension of Kulbak's work is both inescapable and tantalizingly complex. This essay analyzes the first of these works, his long poem “The City” – “one of the most popularly…
Translating Sholem Aleichem
Twenty-First Century Yiddishism
Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe's Twenty-First Century Yiddishism opens with a promising set of tasks and questions, and the author begins her study with a clear statement of her goal: “to investigate how the controversies surrounding the use of the Yiddish language not only persist but remain vital to its status, prestige, and legitimacy” (1). While what “Yiddishism” meant in 1908, where this volume begins, is not what is meant by the word in the twenty-fi…
To Organize Beauty
Toward the end of his life, the American Yiddish poet Mani Leyb turned to composing a series of intensely personal lyrics in the form of loosely connected sonnets. These he conceived as his summum opus, combining his ideas of simplicity and plainspokenness with a lifelong achievement in impressionist poetics, all within the framework of the sonnet, the token of the pinnacle of high-art achievement in Western poetry. In some of the inherent tensio…
Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant‐gardes
This article examines the complicated relationship between avant‐garde interwar poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish through two exemplary figures: Avraham Shlonsky and Perets Markish. The intersections of, and distinctions in, technique, language and imagery make these two poets' work useful indices to the broader connections between Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in this period
The Polyphony of Jewish Culture
The Poetics of Schadenfreude
Nokhum Borukh Minkov (1893–1958), best known today as a literary critic and historian, was also a talented poet and co-founder of the Introspectivist movement (Inzikh) in Yiddish poetry in New York. The poetry created under the banner of this movement to whose ideas Minkov remained committed throughout his poetic career was full of complicated rhythmic schemes, kaleidoscopic imagery, and vibrant sound- and wordplay. In keeping with part of the In…
With footsteps marking roundabout paths”
Published within two years of each other in the early 1920s, the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski’s sonnet sequence “Crimea” and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish’s sonnet sequence “Chatyr‐Dag” are important studies in the image and significance of wandering in contemporary Jewish literature. Crimea holds a powerful interest for these two poets as a locus of discussion about land and territory, about the connection (or lack thereof) of Jews to a la…
Enantiodrama
Words which designate both themselves and their opposites can be found in many languages around the world. For the Arabic grammarians of the eighth and ninth centuries the existence of such a class of words was a concern as it was a potential hindrance to intelligibility and clarity of semantic interpretation. This paper seeks to engage one thread of that tradition, to reposition it in the context of more modern linguistic scholarship, and to exp…
Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant‐gardes
This article examines the complicated relationship between avant‐garde interwar poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish through two exemplary figures: Avraham Shlonsky and Perets Markish. The intersections of, and distinctions in, technique, language and imagery make these two poets' work useful indices to the broader connections between Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in this period
With footsteps marking roundabout paths”
Published within two years of each other in the early 1920s, the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski’s sonnet sequence “Crimea” and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish’s sonnet sequence “Chatyr‐Dag” are important studies in the image and significance of wandering in contemporary Jewish literature. Crimea holds a powerful interest for these two poets as a locus of discussion about land and territory, about the connection (or lack thereof) of Jews to a la…
Enantiodrama
Words which designate both themselves and their opposites can be found in many languages around the world. For the Arabic grammarians of the eighth and ninth centuries the existence of such a class of words was a concern as it was a potential hindrance to intelligibility and clarity of semantic interpretation. This paper seeks to engage one thread of that tradition, to reposition it in the context of more modern linguistic scholarship, and to exp…
The Polyphony of Jewish Culture
The Poetics of Schadenfreude
Nokhum Borukh Minkov (1893–1958), best known today as a literary critic and historian, was also a talented poet and co-founder of the Introspectivist movement (Inzikh) in Yiddish poetry in New York. The poetry created under the banner of this movement to whose ideas Minkov remained committed throughout his poetic career was full of complicated rhythmic schemes, kaleidoscopic imagery, and vibrant sound- and wordplay. In keeping with part of the In…
With footsteps marking roundabout paths”
Published within two years of each other in the early 1920s, the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski’s sonnet sequence “Crimea” and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish’s sonnet sequence “Chatyr‐Dag” are important studies in the image and significance of wandering in contemporary Jewish literature. Crimea holds a powerful interest for these two poets as a locus of discussion about land and territory, about the connection (or lack thereof) of Jews to a la…
Constellating Hebrew and Yiddish Avant‐gardes
This article examines the complicated relationship between avant‐garde interwar poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish through two exemplary figures: Avraham Shlonsky and Perets Markish. The intersections of, and distinctions in, technique, language and imagery make these two poets' work useful indices to the broader connections between Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in this period
Twenty-First Century Yiddishism
Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe's Twenty-First Century Yiddishism opens with a promising set of tasks and questions, and the author begins her study with a clear statement of her goal: “to investigate how the controversies surrounding the use of the Yiddish language not only persist but remain vital to its status, prestige, and legitimacy” (1). While what “Yiddishism” meant in 1908, where this volume begins, is not what is meant by the word in the twenty-fi…
To Organize Beauty
Toward the end of his life, the American Yiddish poet Mani Leyb turned to composing a series of intensely personal lyrics in the form of loosely connected sonnets. These he conceived as his summum opus, combining his ideas of simplicity and plainspokenness with a lifelong achievement in impressionist poetics, all within the framework of the sonnet, the token of the pinnacle of high-art achievement in Western poetry. In some of the inherent tensio…
Translating Sholem Aleichem
The Revolution is a City
The trajectory of Moyshe Kulbak's biography (1896–1937), drawing him from small town to big city, mirrors that of many in his generation. The image of the city in tension with that small town, or rather its replacement – nature – haunts so much of his greatest work. The urban dimension of Kulbak's work is both inescapable and tantalizingly complex. This essay analyzes the first of these works, his long poem “The City” – “one of the most popularly…
The View from the Jews’ Rock
While not a central locale in modern Jewish poetry, Crimea nevertheless garnered the attention of several important poets in significant works. Their interest was galvanized at the intersection of their individual biographies and earlier classic literature on Crimea and the Black Sea. This article will focus on key works by the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish as writers in Jewish languages, and will then turn …
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