Description
Dan Miron’s A Traveler Disguised offers a seminal analysis of the emergence of modern Yiddish fiction in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the formative role of Mendele Moykher‑Sforim. Miron reconstructs the literary, linguistic, and ideological conditions that enabled Yiddish prose to shift from traditional narrative forms to a self‑conscious modern literature. Through rigorous textual study and historical contextualization, he demonstrates how early Yiddish writers negotiated the pressures of modernization, the legacy of Jewish storytelling, and the influence of European literary models.
Widely regarded as a foundational work in Yiddish literary scholarship, A Traveler Disguised remains essential for understanding the cultural and aesthetic forces that shaped the rise of modern Jewish prose.
About the Author
Dan Miron is Leonard Kay Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author more than thirty volumes of literary scholarship and criticism in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, and Russian. He is also the author of The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination.
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
5.5 x 8, 376 pages, 20 black and white illustrations
February 1996