Crude creatures : confronting representations of Black people in Yiddish culture /

"This book examines how Yiddish culture - the press, theater, literature, and other fields, both in Eastern Europe and later in the United States through 1929 - described Black Africans and African Americans, and shows how many of the authors, journalists, editors, playwrights, and actors could...

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Main Author:	Ribak, Gil (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Black people in literature. Yiddish literature > History and criticism. Personnes noires dans la littérature. Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique. African Americans in literature Black people in literature Racism in literature