Alyssa Quint
Biographic Data
| ID | 911487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyssa Quint |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyssa |
| FAMILY NAME | Quint |
| SIGNATURE | QUINT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Culture of Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Song
This article examines a body of Yiddish songs published between 1860 and 1890 with the intention of tracing the historical cultural milieu of Jewish merchants in eastern Europe and how songs functioned in their world and how these songs—at times, playfully, insightfully, or ironically—captured it. Behind this inquiry is a larger one regarding the relationship between folk material and historical material
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900–1970
References to tuberculosis sanatoriums figure in the biographies of several prominent twentieth-century Yiddish writers. In Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900–1970, Ernest B. Gilman, primarily a historian of Renaissance literature but driven by a personal passion for his subject, proposes we take these marginal references as central focus. In this slim work, Gilman works to see the careers of three Yiddish poets, H. Leivick, Yeho…
Yiddish Literature for the Masses”?; A Reconsideration of Who Read What in Jewish Eastern Europe
In the early 1880s, the staunch Hebraist and bibliophile Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) became a reluctant witness to the fast-paced growth of modern Yiddish culture that began in his hometown of Odessa. At the time, Deinard owned a Hebrew bookshop that had been sliding toward bankruptcy until he grudgingly adapted his wares to better reflect the market forces of the Jewish reading culture. In Memories of My People ( Zikhronot bat עami ), he briefly…
Yiddish Literature for the Masses”?; A Reconsideration of Who Read What in Jewish Eastern Europe
In the early 1880s, the staunch Hebraist and bibliophile Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) became a reluctant witness to the fast-paced growth of modern Yiddish culture that began in his hometown of Odessa. At the time, Deinard owned a Hebrew bookshop that had been sliding toward bankruptcy until he grudgingly adapted his wares to better reflect the market forces of the Jewish reading culture. In Memories of My People ( Zikhronot bat עami ), he briefly…
Yiddish Literature for the Masses”?; A Reconsideration of Who Read What in Jewish Eastern Europe
In the early 1880s, the staunch Hebraist and bibliophile Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) became a reluctant witness to the fast-paced growth of modern Yiddish culture that began in his hometown of Odessa. At the time, Deinard owned a Hebrew bookshop that had been sliding toward bankruptcy until he grudgingly adapted his wares to better reflect the market forces of the Jewish reading culture. In Memories of My People ( Zikhronot bat עami ), he briefly…
Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900–1970
References to tuberculosis sanatoriums figure in the biographies of several prominent twentieth-century Yiddish writers. In Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900–1970, Ernest B. Gilman, primarily a historian of Renaissance literature but driven by a personal passion for his subject, proposes we take these marginal references as central focus. In this slim work, Gilman works to see the careers of three Yiddish poets, H. Leivick, Yeho…
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
The Culture of Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Song
This article examines a body of Yiddish songs published between 1860 and 1890 with the intention of tracing the historical cultural milieu of Jewish merchants in eastern Europe and how songs functioned in their world and how these songs—at times, playfully, insightfully, or ironically—captured it. Behind this inquiry is a larger one regarding the relationship between folk material and historical material
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Yiddish (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works)