96. Debora Vogel — Acacias Bloom with Juliette Bretan

Debora Vogel by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Polish Jewish Modernist writer Debora Vogel’s poetry and literary “montages” pushed the boundaries of what literature could be. Joining us to discuss the “wandering star” of Polish and Yiddish literature and her 1935 prose work Acacias Bloom is Juliette Bretan, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s Newnham College. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Acacias Bloom by Degora Vogel 

Sheila Heti’s Pure Color

Gertrude Stein 

Jean Rhys

James Joyce

Samuel Beckett

Virginia Woolf

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

Bruno Schultz

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