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Recovering Yiddishland: Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Merle Bachman
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Description for Recovering Yiddishland: Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Hardcover. According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. This book offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ACY; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. In ""Recovering ""Yiddishland"""", Bachman offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. She reconstructs ""Yiddishland"" as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York City. The book spotlights significant works by Yiddish immigrant writers that reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization. The author takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Anzia ... Read more
According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. In ""Recovering ""Yiddishland"""", Bachman offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. She reconstructs ""Yiddishland"" as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York City. The book spotlights significant works by Yiddish immigrant writers that reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization. The author takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Anzia ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631514
SKU
V9780815631514
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About Merle Bachman
Merle L. Bachman is assistant professor of English at Spalding University. Her articles and poetry have been published in such journals as Talisman and Jewish Book World.
Reviews for Recovering Yiddishland: Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Bachman weaves colorful threads of personal, often poetic, reflection into her scholarly analysis. As she shares her close readings, we see her creating and inhabiting a 'Yiddishland' of her own. The literary figures she studies become her restlesss soulmates as she comes to understand that even in its heyday, "'Yiddishland' was always 'a place neither home nor exile.' So it ... Read more