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Literary criticism

My Bachelor Thesis: Contradiction & Dichotomy

My Bachelor Thesis

The results of my toils in college: Contradiction & Dichotomy: David Bergelson and Itzik Manger Confront the Bible, an eighty-six page exploration of the badass poetry of Itzik Manger and a fascinating story by David Bergelson.

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Literary criticism

Warring over Yiddish Poetry: Retranslating Morris Rosenfeld as a Political Zionist

My second independent project in college: analyzing how the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish sweatshop poetry changd it from a messianic work into political zionist poems.

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Literary criticism

Blossoms from the Dust: A model for salvation

Blossoms from the Dust: A model for salvation

A close reading of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Dich wundert nicht des Sturmes Wucht (You are not surprised at the force of the storm).