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Splendor, decline, and rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America / edited by Malena Chinski and Alan Astro.
Van Pelt Library F1419.J4 S75 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 2211-0968 v.10.
- Jewish Latin America, 2211-0968 ; volume 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Latin America--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Yiddish language--Latin America.
- Yiddish language.
- Yiddish literature--Latin America.
- Yiddish literature.
- Intellectual life.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 253 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America presents Yiddish culture as it developed in an area seldom associated with the language. Yet several countries--Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay--became centers for Yiddish literature, journalism, political activism, theater, and music. Chapters by historians, linguists, and literary critics explore the flourishing of Yiddish there in the early 20th century, its retraction in the 1960's, and contemporary endeavors to rescue this marginalized legacy. "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Yiddish side of Jewish Brazil: cultural endeavors and literary heritage / Roney Cytrynowicz
- Yiddish culture after the Shoah: refugee writers and artists as "fresh creative energies" for Buenos Aires / Malena Chinski
- The abandonment of Yiddish by the Jewish-Argentine communist icuf / Israel Lotersztain
- Baginen by José Winiecki: the dawn of the Ashkenazic Jewish community of Mexico in a didactic key / Tamara Gleason Freidberg
- Yiddish and criollismo: the case of Mordkhe Alperson's Der "lindzhero" / Susana Skura and Lucas Fiszman
- Stories by two Yiddish writers in Uruguay: Shloyme Zytner and Elie Verblun / Alan Astro
- Simja Sneh: a language in solitude / Perla Sneh
- Pinie Katz and I / Javier Sinay
- Becoming Cuban in Yiddish: the poetry of Eliezer Aronowsky / Rosa Perelmuter
- Der freylekhster yid in Argentine: the life and death of Jevl Katz, popular artist of the 1930s / Ariel Svarch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004373808
- 9004373802
- OCLC:
- 1041882999
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