| Description |
1 online resource (172 p.) |
| Series |
Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series ; v.7 |
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Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Engendering Audiences Hebrew, Yiddish, and the Question of Address -- 2. The Transsexual Imagination A Reading of Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Bilingualism -- 3. Baron ""in the Closet"" An Epistemology of the ""Women's Section -- 4. A Stormy Divorce The Sexual Politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish ""Language War -- In Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-length exploration of the sexual politics underlying the ""marriage"" of Hebrew and Yiddish, and it has profound implications for understanding the centrality of lang |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917 -- Language
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Baron, Devorah, 1887-1956 -- Language
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Baron, Devorah, 1887-1956 |
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Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917 |
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Jews -- Languages.
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Jewish women -- Languages
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Bilingualism.
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Languages in contact.
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Yiddish language.
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Hebrew language.
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Jewish women -- Books and reading
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Bilingualism
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Hebrew language
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Jews -- Languages
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Language and languages
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Languages in contact
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Yiddish language
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520311800 |
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0520311809 |
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