Elazar Elhanan

“Rear the Head like a Middle Finger. . . and Pierce the Heavens”: the long poem as a site of blasphemy, obscenity, and friendship in the works of peretz markish and uri tsevi greenberg

I offer a reading of the long poems of two Expressionist Yiddish poets, Peretz Markish and Uri Tsevi Greenberg, according to which the long poem was used as a community-generating practice. Although this aspect of the long poem is recognized by scholars, it is rarely at the cente...