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Adventures In Yiddishland
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006
Adventures In Yiddishland written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Religion categories.
"Shandler takes a wide-ranging look at Yiddish culture, including language learning, literary translation, performance, and material culture. He examines children's books, board games, summer camps, klezmer music, cultural festivals, language clubs, Web sites, cartoons, and collectibles - all touchstones of the meaning of Yiddish as it enters its second millennium. Rather than mourn the language's demise, Adventures in Yiddishland calls for taking an expansive approach to the possibilities for the future of Yiddish. Shandler's conceptualization of postvernacularity sheds important new light on contemporary Jewish culture generally and offers insights into theorizing the relation between language and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Yiddishland
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Author : Gérard Silvain
language : en
Publisher: Gingko Press
Release Date : 1999
Yiddishland written by Gérard Silvain and has been published by Gingko Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Postcards are used to tell the story of Jewish life in Poland and Russia in the early 20th century.
Adventures In Yiddishland
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-12-05
Adventures In Yiddishland written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-05 with Religion categories.
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish—from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, fluent speakers as well as those who know little or no Yiddish—in communities across the Americas, in Europe, Israel, and other outposts of "Yiddishland."
Recovering Yiddishland
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Author : Merle L. Bachman
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-17
Recovering Yiddishland written by Merle L. Bachman and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to traditional narratives of assimilation, in the bargain made for an American identity, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture. Or did they? Recovering "Yiddishland" seeks to “return” readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. It reconstructs “Yiddishland” as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York. Rejecting conventional literary history, the book spotlights “threshold texts” in the unjustly forgotten literary project of these writers—texts that reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization. Merle Lyn Bachman takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan’s Yekl and Anzia Yezierska’s Hungry Hearts, tracing in them a re-inscription of the Yiddish world that various characters seem to be committed to leaving behind. She also translates for the first time Yiddish poems featuring African-Americans that reflect the writers’ confrontation with their passage, as Jews, into “white” identities. Finally, Bachman discusses the modernist poet Mikhl Likht, whose simultaneous embrace of American literature and resistance to assimilating into English marked him as the supreme “threshold” poet. Conscious of the risks of any postmodern—“post-assimilation”—attempt to recover the past, Bachman invents the figure of “the Yiddish student,” whose comments can reflect—and keep in check—the nostalgia and naivete of the returnee to Yiddish.
Revolutionary Yiddishland
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Author : Sylvie Klingberg
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Revolutionary Yiddishland written by Sylvie Klingberg and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Social Science categories.
Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and incorporated hundreds of Jewish communities with a combined population of some 11 million people. Within this territory, revolutionaries arose from the Jewish misery of Eastern and Central Europe; they were raised in the fear of God and taught to respect religious tradition, but were caught up in the great current of revolutionary utopian thinking. Socialists, Communists, Bundists, Zionists, Trotskyists, manual workers and intellectuals, they embodied the multifarious activity and radicalism of a Jewish working class that glimpsed the Messiah in the folds of the red flag. Today, the world from which they came has disappeared, dismantled and destroyed by the Nazi genocide. After this irremediable break, there remain only survivors, and the work of memory for red Yiddishland. This book traces the struggles of these militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between great hope and doubt, their lost illusions-a red and Jewish gaze on the history of the twentieth century.
Adventures In Yiddishland
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Adventures In Yiddishland written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with RELIGION categories.
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish-from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jew.
A Citizen Of Yiddishland
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Author : Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2020-01-30
A Citizen Of Yiddishland written by Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-30 with categories.
This study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. A biography of Dovid Sfard allows us to see the whole panorama of Jewish choices in 20th-century Eastern Europe.
Yiddishlands
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Author : David G. Roskies
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Yiddishlands written by David G. Roskies and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.
Yiddishland
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Author : Gérard Silvain
language : fr
Publisher: Fernand Hazan
Release Date : 1999
Yiddishland written by Gérard Silvain and has been published by Fernand Hazan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Bad Rabbi
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Author : Eddy Portnoy
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Bad Rabbi written by Eddy Portnoy and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish life than in the pages of the Yiddish press. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl—in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.
