ISBN:
978-900-437-380-8
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 253 Seiten : Illustration
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Jewish Latin America 10
DDC:
980/.004924
Description / Table of Contents:
"One of the great population movements in history was that of Jews from Eastern Europe, millions of whom emigrated from the 1880s to the 1950s. They were bearers of a traditional but also modern culture in Yiddish, with a burgeoning literature, theater and press"-- The Yiddish side of Jewish Brazil: cultural endeavors and literary heritage / Roney Cytrynowicz -- Yiddish culture after the Shoah: refugee writers and artists as "fresh creative energies" for Buenos Aires / Malena Chinski -- The abandonment of Yiddish by the Jewish-Argentine communist icuf / Israel Lotersztain -- Baginen by José Winiecki: the dawn of the Ashkenazic Jewish community of Mexico in a didactic key / Tamara Gleason Freidberg -- Yiddish and criollismo: the case of Mordkhe Alperson's Der "lindzhero" / Susana Skura and Lucas Fiszman -- Stories by two Yiddish writers in Uruguay: Shloyme Zytner and Elie Verblun / Alan Astro -- Simja Sneh: a language in solitude / Perla Sneh -- Pinie Katz and I / Javier Sinay -- Becoming Cuban in Yiddish: the poetry of Eliezer Aronowsky / Rosa Perelmuter -- Der freylekhster yid in Argentine: the life and death of Jevl Katz, popular artist of the 1930s / Ariel Svarch
