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Discovering Exile
Yiddish and Jewish American Culture During the Holocaust

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext "In her fascinating study of this traditional view/assumption, Norich examines the premises of historical and cultural pressures that determined Jewish fate from the optimistic 18th-centruy Enlightenment to its violent end in the concentration-camp universe Including helpful notes and an extensive bibliography, this thought-provoking study will reward a broad audience with fresh insights and better understanding." Informationen zum Autor Anita Norich is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (1991) and co-editor of Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992). Klappentext This book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused--in Yiddish and English--during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development. Zusammenfassung This book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.

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