Karen Underhill Publishes New Book: Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity
Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity by Karen Underhill (Dept. of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies) was recently published by Indiana University Press as part of the series Jews in Eastern Europe.
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. 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.