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Adventures in Yiddishland : postvernacular language & culture / Jeffrey Shandler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2006.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520931770
  • 0520931777
  • 1423727630
  • 9781423727637
  • 0520244168
  • 9780520244160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adventures in Yiddishland.DDC classification:
  • 439/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ5113 .S53 2006eb
Other classification:
  • H769
Online resources:
Contents:
Encountering Yiddishland -- Beyond the mother tongue -- Founded in translation -- Yiddish as a performance art -- Absolut tchotchke -- Wanted dead or alive?
Summary: Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish--from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, flu.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Encountering Yiddishland -- Beyond the mother tongue -- Founded in translation -- Yiddish as a performance art -- Absolut tchotchke -- Wanted dead or alive?

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Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish--from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, flu.

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