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Discovering Exile - Yiddish and Jewish American Culture During the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Discovering Exile - Yiddish and Jewish American Culture During the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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"Discovering Exile" analyzes American Yiddish culture and its
development during the European Holocaust and shows how our
understanding of American Jewish culture has been utterly distorted
by the omission of this context. It explores responses to some of
the most intense cultural controversies of the period, examining
texts in various genres written by the most important Yiddish
writers and critics and placing them at the center of discussions
of literary modernism and cultural modernity. Anglo-Jewish writers
of the period provide a counterpoint to and commentary on this
Yiddish story. Norich seeks to demythologize Yiddish as
"mame-loshn" (mother tongue)--as merely the language of the home
and the past--by returning to a time of great, if ironic, vibrancy,
when Yiddish writers confronted the very nature of their existence
in unprecedented ways. Under increasing pressure of news from the
war front and silence from home, these writers re-imagined
modernism, the Enlightenment, political engagement, literary
conventions, and symbolic language.
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