ISBN:
9780472121670
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (453 pages)
Series Statement:
Michigan Studies In Comparative Jewish Cultures
Parallel Title:
Print version Norich, Anita Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures : Comparative Perspectives
DDC:
306.696
Keywords:
Jews--Languages
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Chapter 16. Yiddish: It's Complicated - Irena Klepfisz -- Contributors -- Index
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