How Yiddish changed America and how America changed Yiddish / edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.

Title:

ISBN:

9781632062628

Edition:

First Restless Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information:

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2020.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Preface : The old in the new / Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert -- Time line : Yiddish in America -- Part I : Politics and possibility -- Part II : The mother tongue remixed -- Part III : Eat, enjoy, and forget -- Part IV : American commemoration -- Part V : Oy, the children! -- Part VI : The other Americas.

Summary:

Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.

Subject Term:

Yiddish language--United States

Yiddish language -- Social aspects--United States

English language--United States -- Yiddish influences

Added Author:

Stavans, Ilan

Lambert, Joshua N.

OCLC Number:

on1105936557

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