LEADER 03591oam 2200673I 450 001 9910495873803321 005 20230421033348.0 010 $a0-585-05724-9 035 $a(CKB)111000211185556 035 $a(MH)007383842-X 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198274 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12073911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198274 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10170927 035 $a(PQKB)11045768 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211185556 100 $a19961002d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA marriage made in heaven$ethe sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish /$fNaomi Seidman 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 160 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aContraversions ;$v7 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-20193-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Toward a Reading of Hebrew-Yiddish Internal Bilingualism --$g1.$tEngendering Audiences: Hebrew, Yiddish, and the Question of Address --$g2.$tTranssexual Imagination: A Reading of Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Bilingualism --$g3.$tBaron "In the Closet": An Epistemology of the "Women's Section" --$g4.$tStormy Divorce: The Sexual Politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish "Language War." 330 1 $a"A Marriage Made in Heaven is a history of how Hebrew and Yiddish came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. It is the first book-length exploration of the historical associations between Yiddish and Jewish women and Hebrew and Jewish men, tracing these associations back to the seventeenth century and the sexual segregation of reading audiences. Documenting the eventual rise of Yiddish "women's" literature, Seidman also examines this sexual-linguistic system as it shaped the work of two bilingual authors: Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, the "grandfather" of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and Dvora Baron, the first woman prose writer in modern Hebrew. She then analyzes the roles Yiddish "femininity" and Hebrew "masculinity" played in the Hebrew-Yiddish language wars, the divorce that ultimately ended the Hebrew-Yiddish "marriage.""--Jacket. 410 0$aContraversions ;$v7. 606 $aJews$xLanguages 606 $aJewish women$xLanguages 606 $aBilingualism 606 $aLanguages in contact 606 $aYiddish language 606 $aHebrew language 606 $aJewish women$xBooks and reading 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aMiddle Eastern Languages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 0$aJews$xLanguages. 615 0$aJewish women$xLanguages. 615 0$aBilingualism. 615 0$aLanguages in contact. 615 0$aYiddish language. 615 0$aHebrew language. 615 0$aJewish women$xBooks and reading. 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aMiddle Eastern Languages & Literatures 676 $a306.44/089/924 700 $aSeidman$b Naomi$01115411 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495873803321 996 $aA marriage made in heaven$92866656 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress