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Yiddish in the Aftermath: Speech Community and Cultural Continuity in Displaced Persons Camps
2008This chapter looks at the experience of survivors in displaced persons (DP) camps as a cultural anomaly, when Yiddish language and literature formed the basis for cultural continuity in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Jews in the DP camps produced a number of Yiddish publications whose aim was to renew Jewish cultural life. But even as the camp setting
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The Acoustic Culture of Yiddish
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2006This essay examines the acoustics of Yiddish and the ways in which Yiddish signifies beyond the boundaries of formal Yiddish speech and language. Pursuing the extra-linguistic ways in which Yiddish circulates opens up new opportunities for engagement in Jewish culture.
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Culture and the Public: A Yiddish Perspective
Canadian–American Slavic Studies, 2013This article explores the concept of the public as imagined by two prominent Yiddish cultural critics, Shmuel Niger and Mikhl Weichert. The article argues that both were heavily influenced by the Russian critical tradition, and were intimately engaged with the question of the relationship between culture and the public.
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The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (review)
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2007The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, by David E. Fishman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 190 pp. $30.00. As of late, there has been no shortage of books on Yiddish. Ranging from popular to semi-academic to academic works, dozens of recent books have examined the Yiddish language, its literature, culture, and history.
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New Approaches to Modern Yiddish Culture
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2006One of the more complicated questions that has accompanied the renais sance of the study of Yiddish culture is the definition of the term itself, particularly given the complex and ardent ideological battles around the Yiddish language that inflected much of the scholarship on Yiddish, in Yiddish, and for Yiddish, to quote the title of Dovid Katz's ...
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