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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Shandler is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is author of While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (1999), editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (2002), and coauthor of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (2003), among other books. He lives in New York. Klappentext “ Adventures in Yiddishland presents a familiar phenomenon in American-Jewish culture that has rarely been seen before. Shandler has a thorough command not only of contemporary Yiddish, but indeed in all its historical stages.”—Naomi Seidman, author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish "A brilliant and original take on Yiddish in the post-World War II period. The book is beautifully conceived, thoroughly researched, logically structured, and clearly written. The writing is lively and the argument is clear and richly documented. While the focus is on post-World War II America, the book reaches back in time to virtually the entire history of Yiddish, but especially Yiddish in the modern period."—Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage Zusammenfassung 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 a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction: Postvernacularity! or Speaking of Yiddish 1. Imagining Yiddishland 2. Beyond the Mother Tongue 3. Founded in Translation 4. Yiddish as Performance Art 5. Absolut Tchotchke 6. Wanted Dead or Alive? Notes Index
