...Shachar Pinsker This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish—as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a “postvernacular”—operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I...

...Stephanie Greenblatt Ginensky; Hana Wirth-Nesher © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 Recent Scholarship in Yiddish Studies: An Annotated Bibliography (Books Published 1995–2014) Stephanie Greenblatt Ginensky and Hana Wirth-Nesher Goldreich Family Institute...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher This introductory essay maps significant contributions to the study of modern Yiddish literature over the past two decades. Studies of Yiddish modernism have tended to focus on three aspects of this literature: continuity through the use of traditional, mythic, and ethnographic...

...David G. Roskies This essay seeks to demonstrate how the spoken language became a central feature of modern Yiddish literature. This vocal strain was used at first to replace otherworldly with enlightened discourse, esoteric book culture with colloquial style, hackneyed phraseology with straight...

...Naomi Seidman The 1941 Yiddish translation of the New Testament by Henry Einspruch marked a turning point in the history of Yiddish translations of the New Testament aimed at proselytizing Jews. Breaking free from a centuries-long tradition in which Yiddish translators relied heavily on German...

...Jeffrey A. Grossman This essay challenges the standard view of the relations between two major Jewish corpora: German and Yiddish–East European culture and literature. In that view the writings of German Jews are steeped in either disdain for or romantic fantasies about East European Jews. Yiddish...

...Ken Frieden Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Traces of Yiddish recurrently manifest themselves in contemporary Jewish literature written in other languages. Representation of Yiddish discourse in recent years has drawn on two significant facets of the language and its history: the tragic fate of Europe's Yiddish-speaking...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...

... of the Yiddish language below the Polish surface, so that it comes to the Polish reader in the form of literal translation and leads to stylization at different levels: syntactic, semantic-lexical, and phonetic-orthographic. This strategy has met with a mixed reception, because it can be perceived either...

... – 2010, with Feliks Tych (2014). She received the 2004 Jan Karski and Pola Niren´ska Award for research in the field of Yiddish. Ken Frieden is the B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University. Though best known for his work on late nineteenth-century classic Yiddish authors...

... edited by Benjamin Harshav, translated from Russian and Yiddish by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, Language in me of Revolution. Los Angeles: University of California Press, Reprinted as a paperback edition in the series Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford, CA: Stanford...

... 1–280 Number 3 (Modern Yiddish Literary Studies) 209–494 Number 4 (Theoretical Approaches to the Early Modern: Beyond New Historicism?) 495–737 736 Poetics Today 35:4 Articles Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika Commemoration by Deformation: Julian Stryjkowski’s...

..., the cold open of episode 8, “My Mom, Greg's Mom and Josh's Sweet Dance Moves,” features a flashback sequence set in 1901 performed entirely in Yiddish with English subtitles in which Bloom and Tovah Feldshuh (who plays Naomi Bunch, Rebecca's mother, on the show) perform as two of Rebecca's imagined...

... 1974b “Misaviv Lanekuda:Editorial” (in Hebrew), Siman Kri'a 3 -4. Perry, Menakhem 1981 “Thematic and Structural Shifts in Autotranslations by Bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish Writers,” Poetics Today 2 : 181 -92. Poggioli, Renato 1968 The Theory of the Avant-Garde , translated by Gerald...

... (www.thepequod.org.uk). Jeffrey A. Grossman is associate professor of German at the University of Vir- ginia where he also teaches in the Jewish Studies Program and the Comparative Literature Program. He has written extensively on Yiddish-German relations, German Jewish culture, translation and the transmission...

... Today (Spring Copyright © by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. 246 Poetics Today 22:1 ist and the semiotician, the expert on Yiddish poetry, the expert on trans- lation, and the literary critic that are needed for a proper presentation and evaluation of Harshav’s work...

... moments in between: the writing of the Yiddish version, the writing of the French version, and the response of readers to the latter), this passage is fascinating because it offers an intricate gloss on the problem of ‘‘facts and writing which turns out to be—in more ways than one—a problem...

...Meir Sternberg © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 Preface and Acknowledgments Had I a couple of lifetimes to spare, I would happily devote one of them to the comparative study of Yiddish, building on my education at home and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

... and unpublished eyewitness testimonies of Jewish Holocaust survivors’’ translated from the Yiddish. At the present time, the Fortunoff Video Archive collection comprises more than 4,300 testimonies, at least 10,000 hours, all recorded between 1979 and this writing in more than 20 languages, by 37 affiliate...