Bloom Spaces:The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel (Jews of Poland)

by: Anastasiya Lyubas (editor) (Author)

Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Publication Date: 30 Oct. 2020

Language: English

Print Length: 380 pages

ISBN-10: 1644693909

ISBN-13: 9781644693902

Book Description

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modeist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of the key yet unrecognized figure in the constellation of European modeity.

About the Author

Review “Regrettably, Vogel’s writing has until now remained virtually unknown to English-language readers. With the invaluable new collection Blooming Spaces, Anastasiya Lyubas, a researcher at the University of Toronto, at last rescues Vogel from [Bruno] Schulz’s shadow, restores the obliterated lines of continuity between her and us, and brings Vogel the attention commensurate with the full profusion of her talents. In translations that beautifully convey the cadences of the original, Lyubas gives us for the first time not only generous selections from Vogel’s three books but also her essays―many with a sharp polemical bite―on photomontage and literary montage, on abstract art, on the painter Marc Chagall (whom she knew personally), on racism and antisemitism (‘Exoticized People’), on the role of intellectuals, and on the history of secular Yiddish writing in Galicia.”―Benjamin Balint, Jewish Review of Books Review “As a poet and an intellectual, Debora Vogel worked at the limits of language. She insisted, as Lyubas writes, that ‘everything is art, and everything matters.’ This volume demonstrates how much Vogel's own work matters for the study of Modeism, art history, poetics, and philosophy. Through Lyubas's deep research and deft translations, Vogel’s full voice now reaches into English―vivid, iridescent, melancholy, and thrilling.”―Anna Elena Torres, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
About the Author
Anastasiya Lyubas, PhD (Binghamton University), is the Visiting Research Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto (2020-2021). She is the author of White Words:Essays, Letters, Reviews and Polemics by Debora Vogel published in Kyiv (2019). She has been a Research Fellow at MLCRC at Ryerson University, a Max Weinreich Research Fellow at YIVO, a Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and a Fulbright Scholar. Read more