1. In the Hands of Every Reader: Sholem Aleichem’s Tubercular Jubilee

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xi
5. Introduction: Jewish Literature and Tubercular Capital 1
6. 1. In the Hands of Every Reader: Sholem Aleichem’s Tubercular Jubilee 25
7. 2. In a Sickroom of Her Own: Raḥel Bluvshtein’s Tubercular Poetry 50
8. 3. In the Kingdom of Fever: The Writers of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society 79
9. 4. In the Sanatorium: David Vogel between Hebrew and German 106
10. Epilogue: After the Cure 135
11. Notes 143
12. Bibliography 197
13. Index 231