Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture

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$44.39
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
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Pages
360
Dimensions
7.0 X 9.9 X 1.1 inches | 1.67 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780814334447
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About the Author
Lara Rabinovitch received her PhD in modern Jewish history from New York University in 2012. She is working on a book project about "Little Rumania" and the origin of pastrami in early twentieth-century New York. As managing editor for two years, she helped launch McGill University's CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures/Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada in 2008. Shiri Goren is a senior lector in modern Hebrew at Yale University. She received her PhD from New York University in 2011. Her areas of specialization include modern Hebrew literature, Israeli culture, Yiddish literature, the novel, and film theory. Goren's current book project, Creative Resistance: Literary Interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, explores how violence affects real and imagined spaces in Israel of recent years. Hannah S. Pressman earned her Ph.D. in modern Hebrew literature at New York University. Her research interests include autobiographical narratives, translation, Yiddish, and religious-secular dynamics in Israeli culture. She is an affiliate instructor for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, as well as editor of JewDub.org.
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An impressively wide-ranging survey of current work in Yiddish studies, Choosing Yiddish is at once a sgule-a remedy-for Yiddishist fears about the future of the discipline and an inducement to non-Yiddishists to become part of that future, if only to hang out with the smart kids.

--Michael Wex

From a research point of view, those who would document, understand, and study Yiddish today must come prepared with revised notions about what comprises linguistic, religious, ethnic, and cultural identity. Indeed, it is precisely the mix of descriptive realism and prescriptive advocacy elicited by Yiddish that makes it such a fascinating topic of sociolinguistic research and that makes Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman's Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture such a welcome addition to the Yiddish studies conversation.

--Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe "Journal of Jewish Languages"

Choosing Yiddish fills a niche not yet addressed by previous collections, and marks the growth of Yiddish Studies in tandem with Jewish Studies. The essays provide for the most part a fresh and timely perspective on historical and current topics, utilizing innovative research sources and methods to shed light on issues that remain relevant. . . . Diverse, intriguing, and inspiring, Choosing Yiddish is indeed a worthwhile choice. Recommended for academic libraries collecting in the area of Jewish Studies.

--Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel "Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews"

Much can be gained from reading the articles in Choosing Yiddish.

--Zelda Kahan Newman "H-Net Judaic"

Optimistic Yiddishists find signs of life for the Yiddish language. One of the most surprising ones is the resurgence of interest in Yiddish in the academic world. The number of students actually studying the Yiddish language at most universities is low, but the number of professors researching and writing about Yiddish language, literature and culture is growing quickly. . . . I enjoyed this book and recommend it if you're interested in Yiddish.

--Martin Lockshin, Canadian Jewish News