Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malena Chinski; Alan Astro (Editors)

Contributor:

Chinski, Malena, editor.

Astro, Alan, editor.

Series:

Jewish Latin America 10.

Jewish Latin America : issues and methods ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Latin America--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Yiddish language--Latin America.

Yiddish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 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. Topics discussed in the volume include the literary figures of the “Jewish gaucho” and the peddler; the regional Yiddish press; the communal struggle against trafficking in women; cultural responses to the Holocaust; intra-Jewish conflict during the Cold War; debates on assimilation versus tradition; and emergent postvernacular Yiddish.

Contents:

Introduction / Malena Chinski and Alan Astro

On the History of Yiddish in Latin America

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

Reading Yiddish Literary Works

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

Individual Portraits

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:

90-04-37381-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004373815 DOI