Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

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Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity is written by Karen Underhill and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253057280 (ISBN 10) and 9780253057280 (ISBN 13).

In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.