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How Yiddish changed America and how America changed Yiddish / edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yiddish language--United States.
- Yiddish language.
- Yiddish language--Social aspects--United States.
- English language--United States--Yiddish influences.
- English language.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Literature.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 480 pages) : black and white illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- 2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Anthologies Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish) A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America-radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life-edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Time Line
- Part I Politics and Possibility
- A Ghetto Wedding
- The First Shock
- Letter to the Forverts Editor
- Against Marriage as Private Possession
- from Di goldene medine
- March of the Jobless Corps
- Di Freiheit, A Personal Reflection
- from The Jewish Unions in America
- The Triangle Fire
- from God of Vengeance
- On Zuni Maud
- The Bitter Drop
- Part II The Mother Tongue Remixed
- Is Hebrew Male and Yiddish Female?
- The Maximalist's Daughter
- Shopping for Yiddish in Boro Park
- O, R*O*S*T*E*N, My R*O*S*T*E*N!
- A Guide to Yiddish Sayings
- The Artificial Elephant
- Part III Eat, Enjoy, and Forget
- Kosher Chinese?
- A Little Taste
- Carp, Rugelach, Egg Creams
- The Baker and the Beggar
- On Bagels, Gefilte Fish, and Tsholnt
- Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife
- Holy Mole and Kamish!
- Hering mit pateytes
- Part IV American Commemoration
- The Cafeteria
- How Does It Feel to Be a Yiddish Writer in America?
- Literature, It's Like Orgasm!
- Poems
- Summoned Home
- Madame
- from Across America
- Oedipus in Brooklyn
- The New House
- Woe Is Me that My City Is Now Only a Memory
- Coney Island
- from Messiah in America
- Pour Out Thy Wrath
- Mr. Friedkin and Shoshana
- God of Mercy
- Torture
- Part V Oy, the Children!
- Goodbye and Good Luck
- Sholem Aleichem's Revolution
- Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History
- To Aunt Rose
- On Maurice Sendak's Vilde khayes!
- Mama Goes Where Papa Goes
- On Being Indecent
- Yiddish Hollywood
- from A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
- Singer: A Purim Parody
- Dedications to Bashert
- from The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Between Vilna and Dixie
- Stan Mack's Chronicles of Circumcision
- Part VI The Other Americas
- A Room Named Ruth.
- Flies and Little People (From a Trip to the West)
- Popocatépetl
- Bontshe Shvayg in Lethbridge
- The Yiddish Terrorist
- A Yidisher Bokher in Mexique
- Camacho's Wedding Feast
- Permissions
- About the Editors
- Copyright Page.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-469) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781632062635
- 1632062631
- OCLC:
- 1136962353
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