Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings of Jewish primitivism : folklorism and Peretz
  • The plausibility of Jewish primitivism : fictions and travels in An-sky, Döblin, and Roth
  • The possibility of Jewish primitivism : Kafka's self and Kafka's other
  • The politics of Jewish primitivism : Else Lasker-Schüler and Uri Zvi Grinberg
  • The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism I : Der Nister's literary abstraction
  • The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism II : Moyshe Vorobeichic's avant-garde photography.