A Taytsh manifesto : Yiddish, translation, and the making of modern Jewish culture /
A Taytsh Manifesto highlights the cultural porousness that inheres in taytsh and deploys the term as a paradigm that can be applied to a host of modern Jewish cultural formations. The book reads three corpora in modern Yiddish culture through the lens of translation, Yiddish pulp fiction, also known...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | A Taytsh Manifesto highlights the cultural porousness that inheres in taytsh and deploys the term as a paradigm that can be applied to a host of modern Jewish cultural formations. The book reads three corpora in modern Yiddish culture through the lens of translation, Yiddish pulp fiction, also known as shund (trash), the genre of the Yiddish monologue as authored by Sholem Aleichem and other prominent Yiddish writers and the persistence of Yiddish as a language of vulgarity in contemporary U.S. culture. Together these examples help revise current histories of Yiddish while demonstrating the need for new vocabularies to account for the multidirectionality of Jewish culture. A Taytsh Manifesto develops a model for identifying, in Yiddish and beyond, how cultures intertwine, how they become implicated in world systems and empire and how they might escape such limiting and oppressive structures. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781531509163 1531509169 9781531509170 1531509177 |