... verter” (the mysteries of words; line 14), and “eybikayt, toyt un gramatik” (eternity, death, and grammar; line 18). The elderly Yiddish speaker engages in serious conversation, repeatedly and consistently. 15 When Glatshteyn set out to articulate his vision for American Yiddish poetry, he did so...

... 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...

...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...

... . Lévine Caroline . Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2015 . Liu Lydia H. “ Robinson Crusoe’s Earthenware Pot .” Critical Inquiry 25 . 4 ( 1999 ): 728 – 57 . Mann Barbara . “ Picturing Anna Margolin: Yiddish Poetry and Idolatry .” Modern...

...- gual contact. Yiddish literature and culture as a world located in the past would become a dominant theme in later Hebrew literature, and Yeshurun was one of the leading figures who attempted to preserve it within his Hebrew poetry. His famous nostalgic view of this world is discussed...

... – 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...

... Taras Shevchenko Speaks to Compatriots Dead, Living, and Unborn .” Slavonic and East European Review 89 , no. 1 ( 2011 ): 29 – 55 . Glaser Amelia . Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2020...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... and return to his national poetry. The prophetic tone is also responsible for a wave of parodies that lasted for decades, from Shlonski to Pinhas Sadeh (see Hagorni). And if we add to this the fact that Bialik’s prophetic poetry reached “the people” in the people’s language — Yiddish or Russian...

... 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...

... 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...

... : Sifriyat Poalim , 1980 . Print . Schachter Allison . Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 . Print . Schweid Eliezer . “The Rejection of the Diaspora in Zionist Thought: Two Approaches.” Journal of Israeli...

... by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 190 understanding of languages, communities, and identities. As is apparent in Brodzki’s read- ings of Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or Yiddish in America” and Philip Roth’s The Profes- sor of Desire, the trope of translator as vampire demands...

... conventional Comparative Literature 62:2 © 2010 by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 190 understanding of languages, communities, and identities. As is apparent in Brodzki’s read- ings of Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or Yiddish in America” and Philip Roth’s The Profes- sor of Desire...

... by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 190 understanding of languages, communities, and identities. As is apparent in Brodzki’s read- ings of Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or Yiddish in America” and Philip Roth’s The Profes- sor of Desire, the trope of translator as vampire demands...

... by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 190 understanding of languages, communities, and identities. As is apparent in Brodzki’s read- ings of Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or Yiddish in America” and Philip Roth’s The Profes- sor of Desire, the trope of translator as vampire demands...

... conventional Comparative Literature 62:2 © 2010 by University of Oregon COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 190 understanding of languages, communities, and identities. As is apparent in Brodzki’s read- ings of Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or Yiddish in America” and Philip Roth’s The Profes- sor of Desire...

..., “pantyhose” for his teeming Old-Testamental family tree from Birobidjan, for all its limbs. Now with a sense of righteous accomplishment he will sit down to write new poems in the medieval language Yiddish and will indeed write them—a whole seven poems by lunchtime, three more in the afternoon. And they’ll...