In-Zikh
In-Zikh (Yiddish: אין זיך, "In the Self"; also transliterated In Sich), also known as Introspectivism or Insichism, was a modernist movement in American Yiddish poetry that arose in 1919.[1][2][3][4]
The movement was founded by Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, Jacob Glatstein, and N. B. Minkoff, who agreed on a shared literary outlook and established the journal In Sich as an outlet for their work and that of like-minded poets.[1][5][6] The established poets Yehoash and H. Leivick were early supporters of the new group.[1]
The movement soon attracted a number of younger immigrant poets, among them Eliezer Blum (pen name B. Alkvit), Bernard Lewis, Kalman Heisler, Reuben Ludwig, Jacob Stodolsky, and Alef Katz.[1] In later years the journal published work by additional writers, including J. I. Segal, Mikhl Likht, Eliezer Greenberg, A. Lutzky, Aaron Kurtz, Shloime Schwartz, Celia Drapkin, Esther Shumiacher-Hirshbein, and Anna Margolin.[1]
By the late 1930s In Sich appeared irregularly and was edited by a rotating committee that included Leyeles, Glatstein, Blum, and Y. A. Vaysman; the journal's final issue appeared in December 1940.[7]
Reference
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Liptzin, Sol (1972). A History of Yiddish Literature. Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David Publishers. p. 311.
- ↑ Skolnik, Fred; Berenbaum, Michael, eds. (2007). "In-Zikh". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
- ↑ "Di Inzikhistn". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
- ↑ "The Introspectivists". Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
- ↑ Frieden, Ken. "Yiddish literature - Writers in New York". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2026-07-27.
- ↑ "Inzikh". Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture. Brill. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
- ↑ Zutra, Itay Binyamin (2010). In zikh (1930–1940): Yiddish Modernism in Search of Jewish Self-Consciousness (PhD dissertation). The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.