Adventures in Yiddishland
Postvernacular Language and Culture
Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date of Publication 22 November 2005
- ISBN 9780520244160
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 234x161x25 mm
- Weight 538 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish--from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, fluent speakers as well as those who know little or no Yiddish--in communities across the Americas, in Europe, Israel, and other outposts of "Yiddishland."
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction: Postvernacularity, or Speaking of Yiddish
1. Imagining Yiddishland
2. Beyond the Mother Tongue
3. Founded in Translation
4. Yiddish as Performance Art
5. Absolut Tchotchke
6. Wanted Dead or Alive?
Notes
Index
