The Meaning of Yiddish
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19906009 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Benjamin Harshav (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1999 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Revista | The Meaning of Yiddish (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Stanford University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781503618886 |
| OpenAlex | W2001864635 |
| ISBN | 9781503618886 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 37 |
With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language. Reviews "Harshav's book is a first-class study of Yiddish as both language and culture, rich with linguistic detail and historical insight, expert in its literary analysis and judgments. I recommend it enthusiastically." —Irving Howe, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York "The Meaning of Yiddish is the most important contribution to the study of Yiddish language and literature in recent times." —Chana Kronfeld, University of California, Berkeley "The Meaning of Yiddish is explicitly intended for 'readers who bring to it no previous knowledge, only curiosity.' . . . 'My central question,' Harshav writes in the preface, 'is: Yiddish: what was it? What kind of world was it? How can we read the intersections of meaning its texts seem to provide? How did it lead in and out of Jewish history, moving between the internal Jewish world and the cultures of Christian Europe and America?' I know of no other single book in any language which could respond to these questions by conveying to the uninitiated . . . such a richly textured profile of the nature and dynamics of both the Yiddish language and its literature. It is a remarkable feat of high popularization, written with great flair and without a hint of pedantry, its examples always to the point and often memorable in themselves. . . . The book should be read by all who are interested in language, in literature, and in the modern Jewish experience." —Times Literary Supplement
Epistemology · Judaism · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Theology · Yiddish · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy
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"Entering the "Tent of Abraham
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Using Yiddish
A Different Kind of Hell”
"Shpeaking Plain" and Writing Foreign
Modern Yiddish Literary Studies
That Yiddish Has Spoken to Me
The meaning of Ladino
The Holocaust for Beginners
Beyond the Mother Tongue
Was It Possible to Avoid "Hebrew Assimilation"? Hebraism, Polonization, and Tarbut Schools in the Last Decade of Interwar Poland
Jewish Culture Between Renaissance and Decadence
Jewish Jokes, Yiddish Storytelling, and Sholem Aleichem
Writing for the Jews, Writing for the Goyim
Outcasts Within
The Poetics of Schadenfreude
Homens mapole
Asymmetric Fates
From Łódź to Tel Aviv
Jewish Autobiography
Additional Evidence for nu
Impossible Assimilations, American Liberalism, and Jewish Difference
Postvernacular Yiddish
Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity
Call It Jewspeak
Yiddish as Voice and Letter in Post-Holocaust Literature
From Polylingual to Postvernacular
Becoming Canadian
Reading practices and the formation of ‘interpretive communities’ in the Lodz ghetto
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| Obras citantes distintas | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,09 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1992 - 2021 (30) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |