...Naomi Brenner Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . By Schachter Allison . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 198 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 Works Cited Anderson Benedict . Imagined Communities...

... . Print . Chaver Yael . What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine . Syracuse : Syracuse UP , 2004 . Print . Chowers Eyal . The Political Philosophy of Zionism: Trading Jewish Worlds for a Hebraic Land . New York : Cambridge UP , 2012 . Print...

...Neta Stahl Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact . By Brenner Naomi . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2016 . 320 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 348 “forgets to be” and imagines himself at one...

...Sunny S. Yudkoff Abstract This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue Harrison’s concept of “heterochronicity”—the ability to embody many ages at once...

... fellow staunch Zionists, he argued passionately that Hebrew should be the language of the emerging national culture and that Yiddish, the language of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, should be abandoned to the Diaspora. But, strangely enough, Shlonsky's early poetry and manifestoes are infused with Yiddish...

...Barbara E. Mann Abstract This essay analyzes the depiction of “things” in three modernist novels: Dovid Bergelson’s The End of Everything (Yiddish, 1913), a tale of ennui set in a provincial town outside Kiev, where faded fabrics and cherished ornaments in drawing rooms emblematize the end...

...Samuel J. Spinner Abstract Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry brings together a group of major—seemingly disparate—topics: the Holocaust; ecological crisis; Yiddish culture; and what he terms ethnopoetics, a poetic primitivism centered largely on the culture of Indigenous Americans. This article shows how...

.... Garrett, Leah. “ Modernity in Motion: Images of Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature .” Diss. Jewish Theological Seminary, 1999 . Green, Martin. The Robinson Crusoe Story . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990 . Lefevere, Andre. “ Translation Practice(s) and the Circulation...

... sheep, Breuer studied Yiddish, perfected his knowledge of Eastern European klezmer songs, and began composing klezmer music himself.1 Attired in a shepherd’s felt hat and with a knobby walking stick, he crosses the Alps like a latter-day, lower class von Trapp. Instead of Austrian folk songs...

... Français Ancien ; ATILF, 2009. httpcatalog.bfm-corpus.org/PercevalKu. Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact. By Naomi Brenner. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 320 p. God of Abraham, you who know languages, you who spoke with my mother...

... – 81 . Print . Said Edward . Orientalism . New York : Vintage , 1978 . Print . Schachter Allison . Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . New York : Oxford UP , 2012 . Print . ———. “Modernist Indexicality: The Language of Gender...

... traditionally worn by Jewish men. Some also ascribe the origin of cafishio  to a modification of caftán. “Polacas” (female Poles) was a common term for Jewish prostitutes. 12 In my discussion of these texts, Yiddish words and phrases are generally spelled as they appear in the novels in question. While...

.... Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1998 . 219 -38. Saposnik, Irv. “Jolson, The Jazz Singer and the Jewish Mother: Or, How My Yiddishe Momme Became My Mammy.” Judaism 43 ( 1994 ): 432 -42. Scholnick, Sylvia Huberman. “Money versus Mitzvot: The Figure of the Businessman in Novels by American Jewish Writers...

... that Feffer was safe, Soviet officials sent him to Robeson’s bugged hotel room, but using gestures and scribbled notes Feffer was able to communicate the fact of his imprisonment and likely execution. While Robeson protested this by singing Yiddish songs at a Leningrad concert soon after —​a jab...

... and scribbled notes Feffer was able to communicate the fact of his imprisonment and likely execution. While Robeson protested this by singing Yiddish songs at a Leningrad concert soon after —​a jab at Stalinist orthodoxy at a moment when Yiddish periodicals, schools, and book publications were being...

... 62-63, 117-20; Slide 17-19, 31-35, 62-65, 107-8, 269-72, 336-39, 436-37, 508-13; and Nahma Sandrow, “Yiddish Theater and American Theater”; Mark Slobin, “Some Intersections of Jews, Music, and Theater”; and June Sochen, “Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker: Blending the Par- ticular with the Universal...

... imagining (translating) everyday life wasn’t a familial inheritance but a prosthesis grafted from textual history (brought back from the dead) or cloned from the vernaculars on which it fed (in particular the Ashkenazic vernacular, Yiddish). The Hebrew language is therefore a gothic figure that is homeless...

..., in the East, Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Zion. 5 In general this means stressing the fi rst syllable of a word, as in Yiddish, as opposed to Sep- hardic accentuation, which stresses the fi nal syllable. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 6 If I could revisit that lesson, I would probably fi nd that I shed...

... and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . New York : Oxford UP , 2012 . Print . Schachter Allison . Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . New York : Oxford UP , 2011 . Print . Shaw Donald . A Companion...

... as from Yiddish works and Jewish literatures written in non-Jewish languages (Universal Jew 133–236). The link between tragedy and nation is not, of course, unique to Jewish nation- hood. Tragedy has been associated with a host of modern nation-building projects, from Latin- America (Dove...