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A Tribute to Professor Leon Yudkin (1939–2013)
in European Judaism
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David Herman
David Herman
TV Producer, Freelance
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Abstract
This is a tribute to the Jewish literary critic Professor Leon Yudkin, who died in 2013. He was a prolific writer: the author of more than a dozen works and editor and co-editor of another five books. The range of his interests was prodigious, from individual writers like Shmuel Agnon, Joseph Roth and Else Lasker-Schüler to the Prague Circle, French feminist writers, German Expressionism and, above all, a series of authoritative surveys of Hebrew, Yiddish and Israeli literature. Much of this article focuses on his last book, posthumously published, Fiction Derailed: Form for the Modern (2020), an exploration of the modern novel. His greatest legacy was as a pioneer, someone who opened up the study of Jewish and especially Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the academy.
Contributor Notes
David Herman was a TV producer for twenty years before becoming a writer and critic for a number of publications. He has written more than 1200 articles, essays and reviews mostly on Jewish literature and history, especially the history of Jewish refugees in the twentieth century.