Adventures in Yiddishland postvernacular language and culture 1st Edition by Jeffrey Shandler 9780520258112 0520258118

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ISBN 10: 0520258118

ISBN 13: 9780520258112

Author: Jeffrey Shandler

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, fluent speakers as well as those who know little or no Yiddish―in communities across the Americas, in Europe, Israel, and other outposts of “Yiddishland.”

Table of contents:

1. Imagining Yiddishland

2. Beyond the Mother Tongue

3. Founded in Translation

4. Yiddish as Performance Art

5. Absolut Tchotchke

6. Wanted Dead or Alive?

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