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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463565103321

Titolo

Choosing Yiddish [[electronic resource] ] : new frontiers of language and culture / / edited by Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8143-3799-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabinovitchLara <1979->

GorenShiri <1976->

PressmanHannah S. <1979->

Disciplina

439/.1

Soggetti

Yiddish language - Social aspects

Yiddish literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Foreword: Yiddish Studies: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Mandate                                                                       ""; ""A Note on Transliteration                                ""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""Writing on the Edge                          ""; ""Prelude to “Writing on the Edgeâ€?                                       ""

""Der Nisterâ€?s Symbolist Stories: Adventures in Yiddish Storytelling and Their Consequences                                                                                                """"Writing on the Verge of Catastrophe: David Vogelâ€?s Last Work of Prose                                                                            ""; ""In the Pot, Half-Melted: Sacco-Vanzett i Poems and Yiddish American Identity                                                                                   ""; ""Yiddish and the City                           ""

""Prelude to “Yiddish and the Cityâ€?                                        """"The Lower East Side Meets Greenwich Village: Immigrant Jews, Yiddish, and the New York Intellectual Scene                                                                                                                ""; ""Propaganda or Fighting the Myth of Pakhdones? Naye Prese, the Popular Front, and the Spanish Civil War                                                                                                             ""


""The Other Polonia: Yiddish Immigrant Writers in Buenos Aires and New York Respond to the New Polish State                                                                                                                """"Choosing Yiddish in the Classroom: Montrealâ€?s National Secular Schools, 1910â€?1950                                                                                        ""; ""Yiddish Goes Pop                       ""; ""Prelude to “Yiddish Goes Popâ€?                                    ""

""Isaac Goldberg and the Idea of Obscene Yiddish                                                     """"The Idealized Mother and Her Discontents: Performing Maternity in Yiddish Film Melodrama                                                                                               ""; ""Russian Militia Singing in Yiddish: Jewish Nostalgia in Soviet and Post-Soviet Popular Culture                                                                                                     ""; ""Yiddish Comes to America                               ""

""Prelude to “Yiddish Comes to Americaâ€?                                            ""