Aaron Zeitlin and Yiddish Literature in Interwar Poland

The correspondence between writers may be considered a separate literary genre, especially that of Aaron Zeitlin. Zeitlin's letters deal with literary matters and an array of cultural issues. This book is an attempt to bring together two disciplines in order to better understand the one author: the study of the cultural history of Yiddish and its literature and the methodology involved in the editing of literary correspondence. These two disciplines are brought together while dealing in detail with Aaron's public activities (one as one of the presidents of the Yiddish PEN club in Warsaw, as a journalist, a literary editor and a public figure) and examining his ideas and beliefs as expressed in his letters to fellow authors and critics close to him in thought and action: Yosef Opatoshu, H.Leyvik, Avraham Liesin, Shmuel Niger and others.