Yiddishlands : a memoir / David G. Roskies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roskies, David G., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, 2008.

Summary:

A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present-updated in a second edition.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Revisiting a Memoir

Matz-­Welczer Family Tree

I: Table Talk

1. The Rebbe Elimeylekh

2. The Dybbuk

3. Cafe Rudnitsky

4. Bread

5. Prayer for the Tsar

6. Scribal Errors

7. Malvina's Roses

8. The Watercarrier

9. Yeast

10. Beloved Fatherland

11. The Black Canopy

12. May Day

13. The Wooden Box

14. The Last Seder Night

15. Lisbon

II: Talking Back

16. Playing Solitaire

17. The Soiree

18. Cape Cod

19. Double Feature

20. Male Bonding

21. Études

III: Jewspeak

22. Sutzkever's Address

23. Leybl's Ark

24. Between Two Mountains

25. Kotsk

26. The Sale of Joseph

27. The Two Bulvanes

28. Yom Kippur

29. New York Jew

30. Partisans' Hymn

31. The Menorah

32. A Piece of Cake

33. Dream House

34. Footloose in Vilna, 1939

Genealogy

Masha Roskies Sings

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780814350737

0814350739

OCLC:

1381712791