Berlin emerged from the First World War as a multicultural European capital of immigration from the former Russian Empire, and while many Russian emigres moved to France and other countries in the 1920s, a thriving east European Jewish community remained

Introduction: Yiddish on the Spree 1. Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Metropolis: Literary Topographies of Berlin in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism 2. A Yiddish Poet Engages with German Society: A. N. Stencl's Weimar Period 3. Like fires in overgrown forests': Moyshe Kulbak's Contemporary Berlin Poetics 4. Belarus in Berlin, Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak's Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim between Nostalgia and Apocalypse 5. The air outside is bloody': Leyb Kvitko and his Pogrom Cycle 1919 6. A Warm Morning Gown and a Shawl from Berlin: Liebe Zaltsman's Yiddish Letters to Helene Koigen 7. The Berlin Bureau of the New York Forverts 8. Max Weinreich in Weimar Germany 9. Reports from the 'Republic Lear': David Eynhorn in Weimar Berlin 1920-24 10. Jewish Universalism, the Yiddish Encyclopedia, and the Nazi Rise to Power 11. Yiddish, the Storyteller, and German-Jewish Modernism: A New Look at Alfred Döblin in the 1920s 12. Between Literature and History: Israel Joshua Singer's Berlin Novel the Family Carnovsky as a Cul-de-Sac of the German-Jewish 'Symbiosis' 13. Unkind Mirrors: Berlin in Three Yiddish Novels of the 1930s