Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Realism and the Yiddish literary canon -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past
Summary
From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer