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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826341803321

Autore

Shandler Jeffrey

Titolo

Adventures in Yiddishland : postvernacular language and culture / / Jeffrey Shandler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-75933-7

9786612759338

0-520-93177-7

1-59875-780-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Disciplina

439/.1

Soggetti

Yiddish language

Yiddish language - Social aspects

Jews - Languages

Language and culture

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

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION: POSTVERNACULARITY, OR SPEAKING OF YIDDISH -- CHAPTER ONE. IMAGINING YIDDISHLAND -- CHAPTER TWO. BEYOND THE MOTHER TONGUE -- CHAPTER THREE. FOUNDED IN TRANSLATION -- CHAPTER FOUR. YIDDISH AS PERFORMANCE ART -- CHAPTER FIVE. ABSOLUT TCHOTCHKE -- CHAPTER SIX. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE? -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 post-vernacular 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."