Adventures in Yiddishland [[electronic resource] ] : postvernacular language and culture / / Jeffrey Shandler

• Autore: Shandler Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 439/.1
• Soggetto topico: Yiddish language; Yiddish language - Social aspects; Jews - Languages; Language and culture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Adventures in Yiddishland
• ISBN: 1-282-75933-7; 9786612759338; 0-520-93177-7; 1-59875-780-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450061403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II