Later Yiddish writers romanticized the world Mendele bitterly satirized
Evidence
In his survey of modern Yiddish literature, Irving Howe notes a similar response among Yiddish-language writers, who according to Howe, felt “an impulse … to romanticize the very world that Mendele had so bitterly attacked.”
— Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1052 (#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
XREF: connects to: Yiddish writers romanticized the shtetl world that Mendele had attacked — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1052