| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Yiddish studies : toward a twenty-first-century mandate / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Prelude to "writing on the edge" / Anita Norich -- Der Nister's symbolist stories : adventures in Yiddish storytelling and their consequences / Dara Horn -- Writing on the verge of catastrophe : David Vogel's last work of prose / Shiri Goren -- In the pot, half-melted : Sacco-Vanzetti poems and Yiddish American identity / Jordan Finkin -- Prelude to "Yiddish and the city" / Gennady Estraikh -- The Lower East Side meets Greenwich Village : immigrant Jews, Yiddish, and the New York intellectual scene / Tony Michels -- Propaganda or fighting the myth of Pakhdones? Naye Prese, the popular front, and the Spanish Civil War / Gerben Zaagsma -- The other Polonia : Yiddish immigrant writers in Buenos Aires and New York respond to the New Polish state / Rebecca Kobrin -- Choosing Yiddish in the classroom : Montreal's national secular schools, 1910-1950 / Rebecca Margolis -- Prelude to "Yiddish goes pop" / Jeffrey Shandler -- Isaac Goldberg and the idea of obscene Yiddish / Josh Lambert -- The idealized mother and her discontents : performing maternity in Yiddish film melodrama / Zehavit Stern -- Russian militia singing in Yiddish : Jewish nostalgia in Soviet and post-Soviet popular culture / Anna Shternshis -- Prelude to "Yiddish comes to America" / Hasia Diner --My Yidishe murder : the 1876 case of Pesach Rubenstein, Hasidic Slasher / Edward Portnoy -- Race, culture, and the creation of Yiddish social science : Max Weinreich's trip to Tuskegee / Jennifer Young -- Coming to America : Max Weinreich and the emergence of YIVO's American center / Kalman Weiser -- Prelude to "Yiddish encounters Hebrew" / Barbara Mann -- A mistress, a nanny, or a maidservant : discourse on Yiddish in Fin de Siècle Hebrew newspapers in Eastern Europe / Ela Bauer -- Choosing Yiddish in Israel : Yung Yisroel between home and exile, the center and the margins / Shachar Pinsker -- Hebrew remembers Yiddish : Avot Yeshurun's poetics of translation / Adriana X. Jacobs -- Prelude to "hear and now" / Ari Y. Kelman -- Echoes of Yiddish in the speech of twenty-first century American Jews / Sarah Bunin Benor -- "Hold on tightly to tradition" : generational differences in Yiddish song repertoires among contemporary Hasidic women / Ester-Basya (Asya) Vaisman -- The so-called past : sampling Yiddish in hip-hop / Shayn E. Smulyan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Yiddish language -- Social aspects
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Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Scandinavian Languages (Other)
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Yiddish language -- Social aspects
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Yiddish literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rabinovitch, Lara, 1979-
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Goren, Shiri, 1976-
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Pressman, Hannah S., 1979-
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| LC no. |
2012015788 |
| ISBN |
9780814337998 |
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0814337996 |
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