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Author : Emanuel S. Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015008593256
Deals comprehensively with the formative years of the Yiddish language and cultural movement that has, throughout this century, affected Jewish life.
Author : Emanuel S. Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000714665
Deals comprehensively with the formative years of the Yiddish language and cultural movement that has, throughout this century, affected Jewish life.
Author : S.A. Birnbaum
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781442665347
One of the great Yiddish scholars of the twentieth century, S.A. Birnbaum (1891–1989) published Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in 1979 towards the end of a long and prolific career. Unlike other grammars and study guides for English speakers, Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar fully describes the Southern Yiddish dialect and pronunciation used today by most native speakers, while also taking into account Northern Yiddish and Standard Yiddish, associated with secularist and academic circles. The book also includes specimens of Yiddish prose and poetic texts spanning eight centuries, sampling Yiddish literature from the medieval to modern eras across its vast European geographic expanse. The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike. Featuring three new introductory essays by noted Yiddish scholars, a corrected version of the text, and an expanded and updated bibliography, this book is essential reading for any serious student of Yiddish and its culture.
Author : Simon Rabinovitch
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611683622
An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum
Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780190651961
"This book provides an introduction to Yiddish, the foundational vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, both as a subject of interest in its own right and for the distinctive issues that Yiddish raises for the study of languages generally, including language diaspora, language fusion, multilingualism, language ideologies, and postvernacularity. By approaching the study of Yiddish through the rubric of a biography, rather than following a more conventional chronological, geographical, or ideological approach, this book examines the story of Yiddish thematically. Each chapter addresses a different "biographical" topic concerning the character of the language and how it has been conceptualized, ranging across time, space, and speech communities. These chapters interrelate discussions of the language's origins, characteristics, and development with the dynamics of its implementation in Ashkenazi culture from the Middle Ages to the present. These thematic chapters also examine the symbolic investments that both Jews and others have made in Yiddish over time, which are key to understanding both general perceptions and scholarly analyses of the language, especially in the modern period"--
Author : Olaf Terpitz
Publisher : Böhlau Wien
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783205210290
Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by encounter, transfer, and transformation. Translation, sustained by writers, translators, journalists amongst others, encompasses besides texts also discourses, concepts and medialities. The volume's contributions negotiate this dynamic field between Yiddish studies, translation and world literature in different spatial and temporal contexts. The focus on translation in Yiddish literature and culture allows insights into the glocal Yiddish cultural production as well as it delivers incentives to current transdisciplinary cultural theories.
Author : Dov-Ber Kerler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 3718650606
Arising from the Third Annual Oxford Winter Symposium in Yiddish Language and Literature, December 1987, 12 papers cover a range of topics including Yiddish linguistics, dialectology, historical semantics, methodology, old and modern Yiddish literature, drama, and folklore. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Mark L. Smith
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814346136
Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.
Author : Naomi Brenner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815653431
In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an endpoint but rather a new phase in Hebrew-Yiddish linguistic and literary contact. Though the literatures followed different geographic and ideological paths, their writers and readers continued to interact in places like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York—and imagined new paradigms for cultural production in Jewish languages. Brenner traces a shift from traditional bilingualism to a new translingualism in response to profound changes in Jewish life and culture. By foregrounding questions of language, she examines both the unique literary-linguistic circumstances of Ashkenazi Jewish writing and the multilingualism that can lurk within national literary canons.
Author : Christoph Herzog,Richard Wittmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351805223
Istanbul – Kushta – Constantinople presents twelve studies that draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little explored aspects of nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul. As a broad category of personal writing that goes beyond the traditional confines of the autobiography, life narratives range from memoirs, letters, reports, travelogues and descriptions of daily life in the city and its different neighborhoods. By focusing on individual experiences and perspectives, life narratives allow the historian to transcend rigid political narratives and to recover lost voices, especially of those underrepresented groups, including women and members of non-Muslim communities. The studies of this volume focus on a variety of narratives produced by Muslim and Christian women, by non-Muslims and Muslims, as well as by natives and outsiders alike. They dispel European Orientalist stereotypes and cross class divides and ethnic identities. Travel accounts of outsiders provide us with valuable observations of daily life in the city that residents often overlooked.
Author : Barry Trachtenberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815651369
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yiddish was widely viewed, even by many of its speakers, as a corrupt form of German that Jews had to abandon if they hoped to engage in serious intellectual, cultural, or political work. Yet by 1917 it was the dominant language of the Russian Jewish press, a medium for modern literary criticism, a vehicle for science and learning, and the foundation of an ideology of Jewish liberation. The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903–1917 investigates how this change in status occurred and focuses on the three major figures responsible for its transformation. Barry Trachtenberg reveals how, following the model set by other nationalist movements that were developing in the Russian empire, one-time revolutionaries such as the literary critic Shmuel Niger, the Marxist Zionist leader Ber Borokhov, and the linguist Nokhem Shtif committed themselves to the creation of a new branch of Jewish scholarship dedicated to their native language. The new "Yiddish science" was concerned with the tasks of standardizing Yiddish grammar, orthography, and word corpus; establishing a Yiddish literary tradition; exploring Jewish folk traditions; and creating an institutional structure to support their language’s development. In doing so, the author argues, they hoped to reimagine Russian Jewry as a modern nation with a mature language and culture and one that deserved the same collective rights and autonomy that were being demanded by other groups in the empire.
Author : Rakhmiel Peltz,Harold F. Schiffman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781853599026
This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.
Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023284
The most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken of Jews in Russia and Ukraine show that their sense of Jewishness is powerful but detached from religion. Their understandings of Jewishness differ from those of Jews elsewhere and create tensions in their interactions with other Jews, especially in Israel. This book examines in depth post-Soviet Jews' attitudes toward religion, intermarriage, emigration, anti-Semitism, and rebuilding Jewish life.
Author : Gennady Estraikh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351198219
"For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an ""ugly jargon"" despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced as genuine folk idiom by Jewish adherents of socialism and communism worldwide. Following the Holocaust, Yiddish was the primary language of education, culture and propaganda for millions of people on five continents. This volume examines the diversity of relationships between Yiddish and the Left, from the attitude of Yiddish writers to apartheid in South Africa to the vicissitudes of the Yiddish communist press in the Soviet Union and the USA."
Author : Markus Krah
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110497144
The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.
