Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination

The European Enlightenment witnessed a Jewish reclamation of Jesus. It led modernist Yiddish intellectuals to experiment with Christian motifs as they tried contend what it meant be in the modern world. This article proposes examine, special focus on poetry, how crucified Jesus not only became space hybridity for literary artists formulate identity and culture but also medium through which articulate suffering language that resonated oppressors. By doing so, seeks understand relevance such depictions by authors poets can have understanding its own relationship Judaism.