Migrant books – a literary geography of yiddish books in Brazil

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006207

Keywords:

jewish immigration, libraries, literary geography, yiddish books

Abstract

The text discusses the literary geography of yiddish book dressed by jewish immigrants from Easterm Europe to Rio de Janeiro, in the beginings of the XXth centrry. Looking at the traces of spatial trajectory of this migrant books, the text intends to describe, through examining the Rio de Janeiro Scholem Aleichem Library collection, the spatial cultural flows expressed in those books, trying to understand the meaning of actions that gave extraterritorial life to these objects, which intelectual contents has been shared by a generation that act for the convergence between social and linguistic struggle.

Author Biography

  • Henri Acselrad, IPPUR/UFRJ

    IPPUR/UFRJ e pesquisador do CNPq. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: hacsel@uol.com.br.

Published

2021-09-13

How to Cite

Acselrad, H. (2021). Migrant books – a literary geography of yiddish books in Brazil. REMHU, Revista Interdisciplinar Da Mobilidade Humana, 29(62), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006207

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