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Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman--who died in 2011 at the age of 101--was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant--who is still living and occasionally publishing--wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
by Dara Horn • Jeffrey Shandler • Jeremy Dauber • Josh Lambert • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett • Kalman Weiser • Hasia Diner • Ari Y. Kelman • Tony Michels • Gennady Estraikh • Sarah Bunin Benor • Anita Norich • Rebecca Margolis • Zehavit Stern • Asya Vaisman • Shiri Goren • Lara Rabinovitch • Gerben Zaagsma • Edward Portnoy • Jennifer Young • Ela Bauer • Shachar Pinsker • Shayn Smulyan • Adriana X. Jacobs • Barbara Mann • Jordan Finkin • Rebecca Kobrin • Hannah S. Pressman • Anna ShternshisYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, peripatetic Eastern European Jewish writers began writing secular stories and novels in Hebrew. Pinsker (Hebrew literature and culture, University of Michigan) explores this phenomenon through the lives and work of these mostly male writers. The... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018