Strangers in Berlin presents Jewish literature in the Weimar Republic as the product of a dynamic encounter between East and West. During the 1920s, Berlin was a cosmopolitan hub where German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers for a brief, vibrant moment. Whether they were native to Germany or sojourners from abroad, these writers responded to rising nationalist movements throughout Europe by cultivating their own images of homeland in verse, and they did so in three languages: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Tracing the rise of the Weimar Republic out of the ashes of World War I in 1919 to its descent into fascism in 1933, Rachel Seelig portrays Berlin as a “threshold” between exile and homeland in which national and artistic commitments were reexamined, reclaimed, and rebuilt. In the pulsating yet precarious capital of Germany’s first fledgling democracy, the collision of East and West engendered a broad spectrum of poetic styles and Jewish national identities.