Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How Yiddish changed America and how America changed Yiddish

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1105936557

Responsibility statement

edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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