Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America explores the history and legacy of the language and its speakers from the late 19th century onward, in a region where Yiddish culture has been neglected by mainstream scholarship.

About the author

Malena Chinski, Ph.D. (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, 2017), is postdoctoral fellow at the National Council for Technical and Scientific Research (CONICET). She has published on Shoah commemoration in Buenos Aires, Yiddish book publication in Argentina, and family correspondence in Yiddish.
Alan Astro, Ph.D. (Yale, 1985), is professor at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and author of articles on Bashevis, Baudelaire, Beckett, and Borges. He is the editor of Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (University of New Mexico Press, 2003).

Product details

• Assisted by: Alan Astro (Editor), Malena Chinski (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2018
• EAN: 9789004373808
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37380-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Jewish Latin America
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies