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Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Marc Miller
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Hardcover. The first Yiddish writer to serve successfully as an interpreter and representative of this world was Morris Rosenfeld. This title examines the career of Rosenfeld, a key figure in the development of Yiddish literature geared to American immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACY; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Popular authors such as Sholem Aleichem and Sholem Asch gained multilingual fame in the early decades of the twentieth century with short stories and novels that represented a world foreign to many Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. But the first Yiddish writer to serve successfully as an interpreter and representative of this world was Morris Rosenfeld. Marc Miller examines the career of Rosenfeld, a key figure in the development of Yiddish literature geared to American immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Rosenfeld's early ""sweatshop"" poems were designed to foment discontent with capitalism on the part of the working ... Read more
Popular authors such as Sholem Aleichem and Sholem Asch gained multilingual fame in the early decades of the twentieth century with short stories and novels that represented a world foreign to many Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. But the first Yiddish writer to serve successfully as an interpreter and representative of this world was Morris Rosenfeld. Marc Miller examines the career of Rosenfeld, a key figure in the development of Yiddish literature geared to American immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Rosenfeld's early ""sweatshop"" poems were designed to foment discontent with capitalism on the part of the working ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631101
SKU
V9780815631101
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About Marc Miller
Marc Miller is a visiting assistant professor at Emory University, Atlanta.
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