Yiddish Lives On

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015505

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Yiddish Lives On by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773585898

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century, Margolis explores the lives and works of activists, writers, scholars, performers, and organizations that fuelled a still-thriving community. She also considers the foundations and development of Yiddish cultural life in Montreal in its interaction with broader issues of diasporic Jewish culture. An illuminating look at the ways in which Yiddish culture was maintained in North America, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil is the story of how a minority culture was transplanted and transformed.

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520931777

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Adventures in Yiddishland by Jeffrey Shandler Pdf

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 postvernacular 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."

Author : Jan Schwarz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299209636

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Imagining Lives by Jan Schwarz Pdf

In interwar and post-Holocaust New York, Yiddish autobiographers responded to the upheaval of modern Jewish life in ways that combined artistic innovation with commemoration for a world that is no more. Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers is the first comprehensive study of the autobiographical genre in Yiddish literature. Jan Schwarz offers portraits of seven major Yiddish writers, showing the writer's struggles to shape the multiple identities of their ruptured lives in autobiographical fiction. This analysis of Yiddish life-writing includes discussions of literary representation, self and collectivity, and memory in modern Jewish literature. Schwarz shows how Yiddish autobiographical fiction fuses novelistic elements and memoiristic truthfulness in ways that also characterize Jewish life-writing in English and Hebrew. His accessible style, biographical sketches, glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words, and careful survey of notable texts takes readers on an incomparable journey through modern Yiddish literature.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274304

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Yiddish: Turning to Life by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow; Status Planning: The Tshernovits Conference of 1908; Stock-taking: Where are we now? Each section is prefaced by an introduction. In addition there are also five papers written in Yiddish. The work emphasises an empirical and theoretical approach to the growing Ultra-Orthodox sector, that until now, has largely been ignored. Fishman's interest in Yiddish (among other Jewish languages) has previously been difficult to access and it is hoped that the appearance of this book will go some way toward alleviating this situation. The volume also includes a statistical appendix bringing together data on Yiddish for the past 100 years from the Czarist Empire, the USSR, Poland, Israel, the USA, and other parts of the world. This extensive and enlightening study should be of interest to sociolinguists and all those engaged in efforts on behalf of small languages everywhere.

Author : Emanuel S. Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0823217663

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Modern Yiddish Culture by Emanuel S. Goldsmith Pdf

The phenomenal rise of Yiddish language and culture is one of the most interesting and colorful sagas of modern Jewish history. In this significant book, Dr. Goldsmith relates the growth of Yiddish to the explosion of Jewish literature, the surge of Zionism, and the popularity of Socialism that impacted upon the Jews of Europe, America, and Israel. Including a study of the major personalities associated with the first Yiddish Language Conference (1908, ) this is the first comprehensive work to explore a movement that affected the lives of millions of Jews before the Holocaust and continues to influence Jewish life throughout the world.

Author : Israël Medresh
Publisher : Signal Editions
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110137515

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Montreal of Yesterday by Israël Medresh Pdf

WINNER 2001 CANADIAN JEWISH BOOK AWARDS Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum FoundationPrize for Yiddish translation Montreal of Yesterday was originally published in Yiddish in 1947. It had earlier appeared in installments in the pages of the Keneder Adler - the Canadian Eagle - Montreal's legendary Yiddish-language newspaper. For the first time, this captivating classic on Jewish immigrant life in Montreal (1900-1920) is available in English. In the 54 short chapters of Montreal of Yesterday Medres writes with charm and gentle humour about immigrant life, class divisions, the first socialists, the first Jewish bookstore, Canadian life, the press, art and business, Yiddish vaudeville, politics and citizenship, Jewish soldiers, writers, the poor, and religious observance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCSC:32106009893899

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Jewish Language Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katerina Capková,Kamil Kijek
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781978830790

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Jewish Lives Under Communism by Katerina Capková,Kamil Kijek Pdf

This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989 by recovering and analyzing the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the Holocaust.

Author : Jan Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ashkenazim
ISBN : 0814339050

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Survivors and Exiles by Jan Schwarz Pdf

Studies the variety, scope, and character of Yiddish culture in different geographical centers after the Holocaust.

Author : Joseph Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351578165

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A Captive of the Dawn by Joseph Sherman Pdf

Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe's most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from the Kiev literary tradition, Markish always went his own way in a literary career spanning four decades and embracing almost

Author : Richard F. Shepard,Vicki Gold Levi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813528127

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Live & be Well by Richard F. Shepard,Vicki Gold Levi Pdf

This book heralds and documents the rich and vibrant traditions of Yiddish-speaking immigrants and their children in the golden land, from the first arrivals until World War II. It presents the famous, infamous and the unknown and is illustrated with photographs, cartoons and theatre posters.

Author : Alexander Z. Gurwitz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817319038

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Memories of Two Generations by Alexander Z. Gurwitz Pdf

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States. In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world. As a boy, he studied in traditional yeshivas and earned a living as a Hebrew language teacher and kosher butcher. Widely travelled, Gurwitz recalls with wit and insight daily life in European shtetls, providing perceptive and informative comments about Jewish religion, history, politics, and social customs. Among the book’s most notable features is his first-hand, insider’s account of the yearly Jewish holiday cycle as it was observed in the nineteenth century, described as he experienced it as a child. Gurwitz’s account of his arrival in Texas forms a cornerstone record of the Galveston Immigration Movement; this memoir represents the only complete narrative of that migration from an immigrant’s point of view. Gurwitz’s descriptions about the development of a thriving Orthodox community in San Antonio provide an important and unique primary source about a facet of American Jewish life that is not widely known. Gurwitz wrote his memoir in his preferred Yiddish, and this translation into English by Rabbi Amram Prero captures the lyrical style of the original. Scholar and author Bryan Edward Stone’s special introduction and illuminating footnotes round out a superb edition that offers much to experts and general readers alike.

Author : Katie Brown,I. A. Lisky,A. M. Kaizer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814348499

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London Yiddishtown by Katie Brown,I. A. Lisky,A. M. Kaizer Pdf

Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers.

Author : Ruth von Bernuth
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479886654

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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm by Ruth von Bernuth Pdf

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life—as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.