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L’America come seconda Yavneh? Cynthia Ozick e la rinascenza ebraica statunitense degli anni Settanta del Novecento

open access: yesIperstoria, 2017
The present essay focuses on a new phase in the evolution of Jewish-American writing which characterized the late 1960s and the 1970s, an era in which the then-current secular, humanist outlook was gradually abandoned in favor of an engagement with ...
Simona Porro
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Alternative Geographies for Alternative Stories. The Diagonal Space in Michael Chabron’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

open access: yesIperstoria, 2018
The present paper discusses the construction of fictional spaces with particular focus on their relationship to history by demonstrating how in Michael Chabon’s alternate history The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a re-configuration of geography corresponds ...
Alice Balestrino
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A rhetorical conversation Jewish discourse and modern Yiddish literature

open access: yes, 2010
"Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature"--Provided by ...
Finkin, Jordan D. 1976-
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Yiddish periodicals published by displaced persons, 1946-1949

open access: yes, 1997
This thesis is intended to demonstrate the existence of a vibrant cultural and literary life among the survivors of the Holocaust during their time as Displaced Persons (DPs) in Germany, Austria and Italy.
Kuper Margalioth, Ayelet   +1 more
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Scrivere la vita di una donna nel XVII secolo

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2014
In this paper, I wish to highlight some of the main characteristics of the autobiographic writing by Glikl Hamel (1645-1724), a German Jewess who wrote her memories.
Chava Turniansky
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Le second degré entendu comme réflexivité dans quelques contes d’Europe centrale et orientale

open access: yesILCEA, 2015
In this paper, the second degree is construed as reflexivity, that is what makes literature refer to itself as opposed to the outside world: the art of story-telling, of keeping quiet which is part and parcel of it, or the art of reading understood as ...
Anne-Marie Monluçon
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Exegetical Poetics: Tanakh and Textuality in Early Modern Yiddish Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This dissertation examines Yiddish literature (1500-1950) as an alternative, even transgressive, vehicle for the transmission of the Hebrew Bible and classical rabbinic interpretation.
Wamsley, Rachel Alexandra
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NO LETTERS ARRIVE ANYMORE: AMERICAN YIDDISH HOLOCAUST LITERATURE

open access: yes, 2022
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Departments of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, 2022This dissertation examines Yiddish-language poetry composed during the Holocaust and in direct response to news and rumors of the events as they reached
Sidky, Sean
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Remembering the Past in Yiddish

open access: yes, 2006
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on
Norich, Anita
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Exotic Exploits and Contentious Chapters in Modern Yiddish Literature

open access: yes, 2016
The Inaugural Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature… Dr. Dovid Katz, Lithuanian-based Yiddish scholar, author, educator, and cultural historian.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1336/thumbnail ...
Katz, Dovid
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