Languages of modern Jewish cultures : comparative perspectives / Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norich, Anita, 1952- editor.

Miller, Joshua (Joshua L.), editor.

Project Muse.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages.

Jews.

Multilingualism and literature.

Yiddish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Contesting Perceptions

Chapter 1 The Joint Literary Historiography of Hebrew and Yiddish / Chana Kronfeld Kronfeld, Chana 15

Chapter 2 A German Gentleman-Scientist in Hebrew/Yiddish Garb: Translating Freud / Ruth Ginsburg Ginsburg, Ruth 36

Chapter 3 "Thou Shalt Make Thee an Image": Yiddish Writers Representing Their Language / Avraham Novershtern Novershtern, Avraham 68

Chapter 4 The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging / Ella Shohat Shohat, Ella 94

Part 2 Resituating Languages

Chapter 5 Hebrew in the Crucible: Multilingual Voices in Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot / Hana Wirth-Nesher Wirth-Nesher, Hana 153

Chapter 6 The "Spanish Jewish Project": Reciprocity in an Age of Westernization / Aviva Ben-Ur Ben-Ur, Aviva 174

Chapter 7 Saving Yiddish, Saving American Jewry: Max Weinreich in 1940s New York City / Kalman Weiser Weiser, Kalman 204

Part 3 Multi-Languages

Chapter 8 "With the changing of horizons comes the broadening of the horizon": Multilingual Narrative Modes in M. Y. Berdichevsky's Miriam / Na'ama Rokem Rokem, Na'ama 227

Chapter 9 A gast af a vayl zeyt af a mayl: Distance, Displacement, and Dislocation in Dovid Bergelson's Mides ha-din and Alfred Döblin's Reise in Polen / Marc Caplan Caplan, Marc 252

Chapter 10 The Politics of the Hebrew Hassidic Tale in the Russian Empire / Hannan Hever Hever, Hannan 275

Part 4 Across Time

Chapter 11 Il-'arabi dyalna (Our Arabic): The History and Politics of Judeo-Arabic / Benjamin Hary Hary, Benjamin 297

Chapter 12 Twenty-First-Century Talk about Judezmo on the Ladinokomunita Website / David M. Bunis Bunis, David M. 321

Chapter 13 "¿Qué pasa, Moishe?": Language and Identity in Jewish Latin America / Ilan Stavans Stavans, Ilan 361

Part 5 Writers Reflect

Chapter 14 When Spelling Counts / Dara Horn Horn, Dara 381

Chapter 15 Holiness and Jewish Rebellion: "Questions of Accent" Twenty Years Afterward / Murat Nemet-Nejat Nemet-Nejat, Murat 386

Chapter 16 Yiddish: It's Complicated / Irena Klepfisz Klepfisz, Irena 394.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Container of ;: Kronfeld, Chana. Joint literary historiography of Hebrew and Yiddish.

ISBN:

9780472121670

0472121677

Publisher Number:

40026011851

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Restricted for use by site license.