Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
In Geveb; a Journal of Yiddish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 9 pp.
Keywords:
Sholem Aleichem, Criticism and interpretation
;
Yiddish fiction History and criticism
;
Shtetls in literature
;
Taverns (Inns) in literature
;
Yiddish language Spoken Yiddish
;
Language and languages in literature
Abstract:
This essay explores the ways in which the tavern and its urban-modern parallels function in the works of Sholem Aleichem. It argues that through his masterful, talkative Yiddish prose (or to use the term Roskies coined for Yiddish literature’s emulation of the spoken word: “Jewspeak”), he created a unique spatial setting that symbolically mitigated the shock of modernity for the Yiddish public.
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