Yiddishlands - Roskies, David G.
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This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish - a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing - has thrived: in the cabaret and cafe, the kitchen and classroom, the literary salon and mystical commune, the partisan brigade and on pilgrimage to Poland.

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Produktbeschreibung
This lively and irreverent memoir explores the settings where Yiddish - a language of song, rebellion, and eternal longing - has thrived: in the cabaret and cafe, the kitchen and classroom, the literary salon and mystical commune, the partisan brigade and on pilgrimage to Poland.
Autorenporträt
David G. Roskies is professor emeritus of Yiddish literature and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A cofounder of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, he also served as editor in chief of the New Yiddish Library. He received the Silver Medal for Contributions to Yiddish Scholarship from the University of Rome in 1997 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His extensive and prolific research and publications span the disciplines of Yiddish and Jewish literature, Holocaust literature, and Jewish cultural history.