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Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-24 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their ne
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-14 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. Whitechap
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-19 - Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
“Electrifying…sparkles with Manger’s song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references.” — Tablet “There is somethi
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-01 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to