| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 480 pages) : black and white illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Time Line -- Part I Politics and Possibility -- A Ghetto Wedding -- The First Shock -- Letter to the Forverts Editor -- Against Marriage as Private Possession -- from Di goldene medine -- March of the Jobless Corps -- Di Freiheit, A Personal Reflection -- from The Jewish Unions in America -- The Triangle Fire -- from God of Vengeance -- On Zuni Maud -- The Bitter Drop -- Part II The Mother Tongue Remixed -- Is Hebrew Male and Yiddish Female? -- The Maximalist's Daughter -- Shopping for Yiddish in Boro Park -- O, R*O*S*T*E*N, My R*O*S*T*E*N! |
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A Guide to Yiddish Sayings -- The Artificial Elephant -- Part III Eat, Enjoy, and Forget -- Kosher Chinese? -- A Little Taste -- Carp, Rugelach, Egg Creams -- The Baker and the Beggar -- On Bagels, Gefilte Fish, and Tsholnt -- Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife -- Holy Mole and Kamish! -- Hering mit pateytes -- Part IV American Commemoration -- The Cafeteria -- How Does It Feel to Be a Yiddish Writer in America? -- Literature, It's Like Orgasm! -- Poems -- Poems -- Summoned Home -- Madame -- from Across America -- Oedipus in Brooklyn -- The New House |
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Woe Is Me that My City Is Now Only a Memory -- Coney Island -- from Messiah in America -- Pour Out Thy Wrath -- Mr. Friedkin and Shoshana -- God of Mercy -- Torture -- Part V Oy, the Children! -- Goodbye and Good Luck -- Sholem Aleichem's Revolution -- Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History -- To Aunt Rose -- On Maurice Sendak's Vilde khayes! -- Mama Goes Where Papa Goes -- On Being Indecent -- Yiddish Hollywood -- from A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York -- Singer: A Purim Parody -- Dedications to Bashert -- from The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- Between Vilna and Dixie |
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Stan Mack's Chronicles of Circumcision -- Part VI The Other Americas -- A Room Named Ruth -- Flies and Little People (From a Trip to the West) -- Popocatépetl -- Bontshe Shvayg in Lethbridge -- The Yiddish Terrorist -- A Yidisher Bokher in Mexique -- Camacho's Wedding Feast -- Permissions -- About the Editors -- Copyright Page |
| Summary |
2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Anthologies Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish) A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America-radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life-edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Yiddish language -- United States
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Yiddish language -- Social aspects -- United States
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English language -- United States -- Yiddish influences
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Yiddish language
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Yiddish language -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stavans, Ilan, editor.
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Lambert, Joshua N., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781632062635 |
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1632062631 |
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