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Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)

By Jeffrey Shandler

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0520244168, 9780520244160, 9781423727637
LCC
PJ5113 .S53 2005
Open Library ID
OL22729023M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2180124 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
278\283
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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."

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