ISBN:
9781632062628
,
1632062623
Language:
English
Pages:
xxviii, 480 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
First Restless Books hardcover edition
Year of publication:
2020
Keywords:
Yiddish language / United States
;
Yiddish language / Social aspects / United States
;
English language / United States / Yiddish influences
;
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
;
HISTORY / Jewish
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
;
Yiddish language
;
Yiddish language / Social aspects
;
United States
Abstract:
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface : The old in the new / Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert -- Time line : Yiddish in America -- Part I : Politics and possibility -- Part II : The mother tongue remixed -- Part III : Eat, enjoy, and forget -- Part IV : American commemoration -- Part V : Oy, the children! -- Part VI : The other Americas
