Adventures in Yiddishland Postvernacular Language and Culture - An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies

Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish-from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, fluent speakers as well as those who know little or no Yiddish-in communities across the Americas, in Europe, Israel, and other outposts of "Yiddishland."

ISBN:	9780520258112
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	01 Dec 2008
DEWEY:	439.1
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	278
Weight:	394g
Height:	150mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	19mm

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