Migrant books - a literary geography of yiddish books in Brazil

Abstract

The text discusses the literary geography of yiddish book dressed by jewish immigrants from Easterm Europe to Rio de Janeiro, in the beginings of the XXth century. Looking at the traces of spatial trajectory of this migrant books, the text intends to describe, through examining the Rio de Janeiro Scholem Aleichem Library collection, the spatial cultural flows expressed in those books, trying to understand the meaning of actions that gave extraterritorial life to these objects, which intelectual contents has been shared by a generation that act for the convergence between social and linguistic struggle.

Keywords:
jewish immigration; libraries; literary geography; yiddish books; migrant objects