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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New York :
New York University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "Mothers Sell Their Little Children': Imagining Blackness in Eastern Europe
- 2. The Negro Took the Place of the Peasant: The Encounter between East European Jewish immigrants and African Americans
- 3. "They Deserve All the Political and Economic Rights": Contradictory Attitudes toward Black People in the Yiddish Press
- 4. "My Mom Drank Ink": The Performance of Race in the Yiddish Theater and Drama
- 5. "A Heavy Bodily Scent": Black Characters in Yiddish Prose Epilogue: In Search of a More Palatable Past.