Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. A Note on Transliteration ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: Why Meir Wiener? 1
7. 1. Failed Messiahs: German-Jewish Culture 11
8. 2. Politics and Scholarship in Post-War Vienna 54
9. 3. On the Way to Yiddish and Emigration 101
10. 4. Soviet Beginnings 135
11. 5. Folklore, Language, and the Haskalah 168
12. 6. Realism and the Yiddish Literary Canon 205
13. 7. Soviet Literature and Theory 251
14. 8. History and Fiction 283
15. 9. Life Writing: Between the Usable and Unusable Past 310
16. Conclusion 335
17. Notes 343
18. Bibliography of Meir Wiener’s Works in Chronological Order 371
19. Index 375