Yiddish in America
Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land
9781589661370
Distributed for University of Scranton Press
Yiddish in America
Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land
Yiddish is a rich, complex, and multilayered language, and that complexity is reflected in Yiddish culture. In Yiddish in America, Edward S. Shapiro has gathered a collection of lively essays on Yiddish literature, music, film, and journalism in the United States. This accessible volume demonstrates the enduring value of Yiddish culture through its reliance on solidarity, its artistic adaptability, and its balance of secular and religious characteristics. Shapiro also addresses the problems that have arisen when this vibrant language has been misunderstood or stereotyped, in a book that is sure to delight anyone interested in American Jewish culture.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Edward S. Shapiro
Ups and Downs of Yiddish in America
Ruth R. Wisse
Images with Teeth: The Political Influence of Artwork in American Yiddish Periodicals, 1910s-1930s
Lauren B. Strauss
Yiddish Scholars Meet the Yiddish-Speaking Masses: Language, the Americanization of YIVO, and the Autobiography contest of 1942
Daniel Soyer
The Yiddish Cinema in America: A Celebration of Jewish Life
Eric A. Goldman
The Worldly Sounds of Yiddish Radio
Ari Y. Kelman
This Is Not Europe, You Know: The Counter-Maskilic Impulse of American Yiddish Drama
Joel Berkowitz
The Influence of America on Modern Yiddish Poetry
Marc Miller
Breaking the Silence on American Yiddish Popular Music
Hankus Netsky
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