| #5123684 in Books | Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) | 2008-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.29 x1.08 x6.38l,1.39 | File type: PDF | 326 pages | ISBN13: 9780815631514 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Yiddish Literature in America|By Tree|This book is unique among recent studies of Yiddish literature, bringing to light the poetry of Mikhl Licht, Abrahan Cahan's YEKL, Anzia Yezierka's HUNGRY HEARTS, and others. Bachman injects herself and her coming to Yiddish language and literature; she is not averse to using a first person point of view. In addition, she places Yiddish lit||Merle Bachman has written an important volume on the place of Yiddish in American Jewish life and thought. -- Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter
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According to traditional narratives of assimilation, in the bargain made for an American identity, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture. --Or did they? Recovering 'Yiddishland' seeks to "return" readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. It reconstructs "Yiddishland" as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York.
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