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Recovering "Yiddishland - Threshold Moments in American Literature (Hardcover)
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Recovering "Yiddishland - Threshold Moments in American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
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According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews
freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for
an American identity. In ""Recovering ""Yiddishland"""", Bachman
offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning
readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence
and resistance. She reconstructs ""Yiddishland"" as a cultural
space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through
the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York City. The book
spotlights significant works by Yiddish immigrant writers that
reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization.
The author takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Anzia
Yezierska's Hungry Hearts. Bachman discusses the modernist poet
Mikhl Likht, whose simultaneous embrace of American literature and
resistance to English assimilation marked him as the supreme
""threshold"" poet. Combining sophisticated academic analysis of
literary works with her own personal encounters with Yiddish
writing, Bachman offers a provocative and highly readable
contribution to Jewish literary history.
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