A History of Yiddish Literature

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Publisher : Jonathan David Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Yiddish Literature by : Solomon Liptzin

Download or read book A History of Yiddish Literature written by Solomon Liptzin and published by Jonathan David Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index. Bibliography: p. 501-507.

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by : Leo Wiener

Download or read book The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century written by Leo Wiener and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1899 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yiddish in Israel

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045169
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Yiddish in Israel by : Rachel Rojanski

Download or read book Yiddish in Israel written by Rachel Rojanski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A pioneering study” of how two languages have coexisted in the Jewish state, with “a wealth of information” on Yiddish newspapers, theater, and more (AJS Review). Yiddish in Israel: A History challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Israeli authorities for ideological reasons, offering instead a radical new interpretation of the interaction between Yiddish and Israeli Hebrew cultures. Rachel Rojanski tells the compelling unknown story of how Yiddish, the most widely used Jewish language in the pre-Holocaust world, fared in Zionist Israel, the land of Hebrew. Following Yiddish in Israel from the proclamation of the State until today, Rojanski reveals that although Israeli leadership made promoting Hebrew a high priority, it did not have a definite policy on Yiddish. The language’s varying fortune through the years was shaped by social and political developments, as well as the cultural atmosphere in Israel. Public perception of the language and its culture, the rise of identity politics, and political and financial interests all played a part. Using a wide range of archival sources, newspapers, and Yiddish literature, Rojanski follows the Israeli Yiddish scene through the history of the Yiddish press, Yiddish theater, early Israeli Yiddish literature, and high Yiddish culture. With compassion, she explores the tensions during Israel’s early years between Yiddish writers and activists and Israel’s leaders, most of whom were themselves Eastern European Jews balancing their love of Yiddish with their desire to promote Hebrew. Finally Rojanski follows Yiddish into the twenty-first century, telling the story of the revived interest in Yiddish among Israeli-born children of Holocaust survivors as they return to the language of their parents.

Jewish Literature and History

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Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Literature and History by : Eliyana R. Adler

Download or read book Jewish Literature and History written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Jewish literature and the historical setting in which it was written. The types of literature analyzed in this study include ghost stories; Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian Jewish literature; plays; letters; poetry; even obituaries.

Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191557072
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Book Synopsis Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature by : Jean Baumgarten

Download or read book Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature written by Jean Baumgarten and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baumgarten's Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature, thoroughly revised from the first edition and translated into English, provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with an exemplary survey of the broad and deep literary tradition in Yiddish. Baumgarten conceives of his work as the study of an entire culture via its literature, and thus he conceives of literature in a broad sense: he begins with four chapters addressing pertinent issues of the larger cultural context of the literature and moves on to a consideration of the primary genres in which the culture is expressed (epic, romance, prose narrative, drama, biblical translation and commentary, ethical and moral treatises, prayers, and the broad range of literature of daily use - medical, legal, and historical). In the field of early Yiddish studies the book will be the standard of intellectual breadth and scholarly excellence for decades to come. In this second edition, the hundreds of text citations and bibliographical references that are the scholarly basis of the study have been verified, and the citations translated anew directly from the original source.

Outwitting History

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565125131
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)

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Book Synopsis Outwitting History by : Aaron Lansky

Download or read book Outwitting History written by Aaron Lansky and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review “A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New York Post “What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque romp, a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world.” —The Boston Globe “Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book.” —The Sunday Oregonian As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called “the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history.” In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country collecting books. Introducing us to a dazzling array of writers, he shows us how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the old world and the future—and how the written word can unite everyone who believes in the power of great literature. A Library Journal Best Book A Massachusetts Book Award Winner in Nonfiction An ALA Notable Book

Diasporic Modernisms

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Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199812632
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Diasporic Modernisms by : Allison Schachter

Download or read book Diasporic Modernisms written by Allison Schachter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic Modernisms illuminates the formal and historical aspects of displaced Jewish writers--S. Y. Abramovitsh, Yosef Chaim Brenner, Dovid Bergelson, Leah Goldberg, and others--who grappled with statelessness and the uncertain status of Yiddish and Hebrew.

The History of Yiddish Literature

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3748117531
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Yiddish Literature by : Leo Wiener

Download or read book The History of Yiddish Literature written by Leo Wiener and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUGGESTION to write the present book reached me in the spring of 1898. At that time my library contained several hundreds of volumes of the best Judeo-German (Yiddish) literature, which had been brought together by dint of continued attention and, frequently, by mere chance, for the transitoriness of its works, the absence of any and all bibliographies, the almost absolute absence of a guide into its literature, and the whimsicalness of its book trade made a systematic selection of such a library a difficult problem to solve. Not satisfied with the meagre details which could be gleaned from internal testimonies in the works of the Judeo-German writers, I resolved to visit the Slavic countries for the sake of gathering data, both literary and biographical, from which anything like a trustworthy history of its literature could be constructed.

Prophets & Dreamers

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Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Prophets & Dreamers by : Miriam Weinstein

Download or read book Prophets & Dreamers written by Miriam Weinstein and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer than one percent of all books written and published in Yiddish have been translated into English. Those that have give us a window into a culture that celebrates the full range of the human condition. This collection of stories, poems and folk songs offers work by Mendel Mykher-Sforim, Yitzhak Leib Peretz and Sholom Aleichem, the three figures who revitalised the language and its literature, as well as works by Shimon An-ski, I.B. Singer and others.

In the Demon's Bedroom

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300141750
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Demon's Bedroom by : Jeremy Asher Dauber

Download or read book In the Demon's Bedroom written by Jeremy Asher Dauber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study is the first to offer a sustained look at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks--and their writers and readers--paying particular attention to their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

The Story of Yiddish

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860115
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Yiddish by : Neal Karlen

Download or read book The Story of Yiddish written by Neal Karlen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique, brashly entertaining, yet thoroughly researched telling of the language's story is the notion that Yiddish is a mirror of Jewish history, thought, and practice—for better and worse. Karlen charts the beginning of Yiddish as a minor dialect in medieval Europe that helped peasant Jews live safely apart from the marauders of the First Crusades. Incorporating a large measure of antique German dialects, Yiddish also included little scraps of French, Italian, ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, the Slavic and Romance languages, and a dozen other tongues native to the places where Jews were briefly given shelter. One may speak a dozen languages, all of them Yiddish. By 1939, Yiddish flourished as the lingua franca of 13 million Jews. After the Holocaust, whatever remained of Yiddish, its worldview and vibrant culture, was almost stamped out—by Jews themselves. Yiddish was an old-world embarrassment for Americans anxious to assimilate. In Israel, young, proud Zionists suppressed Yiddish as the symbol of the weak and frightened ghetto-bound Jew—and invented modern Hebrew. Today, a new generation has zealously sought to explore the language and to embrace its soul. This renaissance has spread to millions of non-Jews who now know the subtle difference between a shlemiel and a shlimazel; hundreds of Yiddish words dot the most recent editions of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Story of Yiddish is a delightful tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together.

Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period

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Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780870684654
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period written by Israel Zinberg and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 13 : 9783337738563
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by : Leo Wiener

Download or read book The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century written by Leo Wiener and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holocaust Literature

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683599
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Holocaust Literature by : David G. Roskies

Download or read book Holocaust Literature written by David G. Roskies and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of Holocaust literature, from World War II to the present day

The Book Rescuer

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481472216
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book Rescuer by : Sue Macy

Download or read book The Book Rescuer written by Sue Macy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers An ALA Notable Book A Bank Street Best Book of the Year “Text and illustration meld beautifully.” —The New York Times “Stunning.”​ —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Inspired...[a] journalistic, propulsive narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art.” —Booklist (starred review) From New York Times Best Illustrated Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one man’s heroic effort to save the world’s Yiddish books in their Sydney Taylor Book Award–winning masterpiece. Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he’s found plenty. Lansky’s treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he’s finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.

The History of Yiddish Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9788826419787
Total Pages : pages
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Yiddishlands

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814350739
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Yiddishlands written by David G. Roskies and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable family story and a whirlwind tour of Yiddish culture from 1906 to the present—updated in a second edition.