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A Taytsh manifesto : Yiddish, translation, and the making of modern Jewish culture /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zaritt, Saul Noam (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Yiddish language > Translating.
Yiddish language > Political aspects.
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Taytsh Paradigm
  • 1. Yiddish Trash: Shund and the Politics of Translation
  • 2. Yiddish Ghosts: The Monologue and the Story of Yiddish Literature
  • 3. Yiddish Vulgarity: Translational Afterlives and Vernacular Discomfort
  • Epilogue: From Taytsh to Jew Theory.