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Nokhum Borukh Minkov (1893â1958), best known today as a literary critic and historian, was also a talented poet and co-founder of the Introspectivist movement (Inzikh) in Yiddish poetry in New York. The poetry created under the banner of this movement to whose ideas Minkov remained committed throughout his poetic career was full of complicated rhythmic schemes, kaleidoscopic imagery, and vibrant sound- and wordplay. In keeping with part of the Introspectivist program Minkov's poetry was keenly sensitive to the cultural resonances of Yiddish's linguistic strata and manipulated them to great effect. I will focus my attention on one especially resonant element daytshmerish, or spotlit Germanisms as a point of access to Minkov's poetic project. This essay aims to provide not only an analysis of the permutations of the emblematic use of both the word and the concept of Schadenfreude as the Germanism par excellence in Minkov's poetry, but offers that discussion as a way of understanding the significance of Introspectivist poetry in the interbellum period and the fraught relationship of Yiddish to German after the Holocaust.
Jewish Quarterly Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Feb 25, 2008
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