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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Joshua L., 1971- editor.

Norich, Anita, 1952- editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages.

Multilingualism and literature.

Yiddish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Jewish Linguistic Spectrum

Introduction: Where Are Jewish Languages? - Anita Norich and Joshua L. Miller

Part 1 | Contesting Perceptions

Chapter 1. The Joint Literary Historiography of Hebrew and Yiddish - Chana Kronfeld

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

Chapter 3. "Thou Shalt Make Thee an Image": Yiddish Writers Representing Their Language - Avraham Novershtern

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

Part 2 | Resituating Languages

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 10. The Politics of the Hebrew Hassidic Tale in the Russian Empire - Hannan Hever

Part 4 | Across Time

Chapter 11. Il-ʿarabi dyālna (Our Arabic): The History and Politics of Judeo-Arabic - Benjamin Hary

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

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

Part 5 | Writers Reflect

Chapter 14. When Spelling Counts - Dara Horn

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

Chapter 16. Yiddish: It's Complicated - Irena Klepfisz

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-12167-7

OCLC:

948511673

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8824672