Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now

✍ Scribed by Leonard Jay Greenspoon (editor)

• Publisher: Creighton University Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Series: Studies in Jewish Civilization; 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Yiddish language and literature played a major role in the lives of millions of Eastern European Jews, both in their homelands and in the centers to which they immigrated in America. Aspects of that culture have continued to be enjoyed and explored by Jews and non-Jews alike in many "translated" contexts. Yiddish, then, clearly has a past and and something of a present. Its future, in doubt according to some, should be vibrant, if considerably changed, in the opinion of others. These are among the topics and issues addressed in this series of papers, which manage to be scholarly, lyrical, challenging, and evocative all at the same time.

✦ Table of Contents

Yiddish Language & Culture......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Editor's Introduction......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 14
Yiddish in the Twentieth Century: A Literature of Anger and Homecoming1......Page 17
Notes......Page 31
Language, Art and Identity: Yiddish In Art From Chagall to Shalom of Safed......Page 33
Notes......Page 52
Turn of the Century Galicia......Page 53
Jewish Workers in Galicia6......Page 55
Towards an Independent Jewish Organization......Page 58
The Establishment of the JSDP......Page 61
Party Activity......Page 64
Unions......Page 67
Political Campaigns......Page 69
Cultural Activity......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 72
Notes......Page 74
I.......Page 80
II.......Page 82
III.......Page 86
IV.......Page 90
V.......Page 97
VI.......Page 99
Notes......Page 102
Equation of Goset: History of Yiddish Theater in the USSR......Page 108
The Doomed Theater......Page 109
International Goals of National Art......Page 111
The Theater of the Future27......Page 113
Conclusions and Problems......Page 115
Notes......Page 118
Radical Politics, Radical Art: The Case of the Artef*......Page 124
Notes......Page 139
Introduction......Page 141
The National Yiddish Theater Circuit......Page 143
The Amateurs......Page 153
Social Clubs and Theater......Page 154
Theater Clubs......Page 156
Post-War Yiddish Theater......Page 161
Communal Coordination and Preservation of Yiddish Entertainment......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 167
Epilogue......Page 168
Appendix B......Page 170
Notes......Page 171
Introduction......Page 178
Vitality: Yiddish Communities......Page 180
Creativity: Limits and Forms of Yiddish......Page 183
Oral Culture and Music......Page 184
# 2. Commercial Cassettes: Kol Yeshurun......Page 185
# 3. Badkhones and Tkhines: Women's Voices......Page 187
# 4. Purim Plays: Bobover Hasidim......Page 188
Written Creativity in Yiddish......Page 190
Religious Roots of Haredi Yiddish and the Haskalah......Page 191
Linguistic Openness, Language Mixing, Errors and Standards......Page 194
Prospects for the Future......Page 198
Notes......Page 199
Longings and Belongings: Yiddish Identity and Consumer Culture......Page 202
Notes......Page 211
I......Page 213
II......Page 223
Notes......Page 241
Yiddish Literature as Secular Jewish Scripture: The World of Irving Howe......Page 244
Notes......Page 253
Reflections on Yiddish Archetypes in Jewish American Literature: Fiction by Saul Bellow and Bernard .........Page 257
Notes......Page 271
A Theology of Yiddish Prayer: Yiddish as a Creative Lashon Haqodesh (Holy Language)......Page 275
I. The Meaning of Jewish Prayer......Page 279
II. The Historical Development of Jewish Prayer......Page 280
III. Prayer and the Origins of Altyiddish: Leshon Hedyot and Leshon Qodesh......Page 283
IV. For Whom Was Yiddish Prayer Written?......Page 284
V. Rabbinic Yiddish Prayer for the Masses?......Page 290
VI. The Rise of Hasidism: Three Masters and Their Prayers......Page 291
VIII. The Nineteenth Century......Page 295
IX. Conclusions......Page 296
Notes......Page 297
Bringing Home the Gospel: Yiddish Bibles, Bible Societies, and the Jews......Page 301
Notes......Page 312
Food in Yiddish and Slavic Folk Culture: A Comparative/Contrastive View......Page 315
Notes......Page 333

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Идиш;