Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel

Hailed Gertrude Stein of the interwar Lwów, Debora Vogel (1900-1942) was a strikingly original Polish and Yiddish Modernist writer. Her first Cubist-Constructivist poetry collection was hailed by the Introspectivist poet, Aaron Glantz-Leyeles, to be “ultimately modern…proving that Lwów is very close to New York.” Vogel’s highly experimental texts challenged every stereotype of Yiddish literature. Yet the author’s own literary contributions have long been eclipsed by her influential relationship with Bruno Schulz, whose Cinnamon Shops (1934) began as postscripts in his letters to her. The volume at hand is the first collection presenting the full scope of Vogel’s oeuvre in English.