David Bergelson : from modernism to socialist realism / edited by Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh.

Essays from papers presented at the Sixth Mendel Friedman Conference in Yiddish, Oxford, England, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

David Bergelson (1884-1952) : a biography / Joseph Sherman -- Memories of my father : the early years (1918-1934) / Lev Bergelson -- Language and style in Nokh alemen (1913) : Bergelson's debt to Flaubert / Daniela Mantovan -- For children and adults alike : reading Bergelson's 'children's stories' (1914-1919) as narratives of identity formation / Kerstin Hoge -- Yoysef Shor (1922) : between two worlds / Seth L. Wolitz -- In search of readership : Bergelson among the refugees (1928) / Sasha Senderovich -- Narrating the revolution : from 'Tsugvintn' (1922) to Mides-hadin (1929) / Mikhail Krutikov -- Uneasy patronage : Bergelson's years at Forverts (1922-1926) / Ellen Kellman -- David Bergelson in and on America (1929-1949) / Gennady Estraikh -- 'Why I am in favour of Birobidzhan' : Bergelson's fateful decision (1932) / Boris Kotlerman -- Memory and monument in Baym Dnyepr (1932-1940) / Harriet Murav -- From mourning to vengeance : Bergelson's Holocaust journalism (1941-1945) / David Schneer -- 'Du lebst, mayn folk' : Bergelson's play Prints Ruveni in historical context (1944-1947) / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- 'Jewish nationalism' in Bergelson's last book (1947) / Joseph Sherman -- A bibliography of David Bergelson's work in Yiddish and English / Roberta Saltzman -- Bergelson's literary theory : Belles-lettres and the social order (1919), Three centres (characteristics) (1926).