Yiddish in America
Subtitle: essays on Yiddish culture in the Golden Land
By: edited by Edward S. Shapiro.
Contributors: Shapiro, Edward S.
Publisher: Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute, University of Scranton; University of Scranton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Scranton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781589661370
Subjects: Jews, East European -- United States -- Intellectual life; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life; Immigrants -- United States -- Intellectual life; Yiddish language -- United States -- History; Yiddish literature -- United States -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edward S. Shapiro; title: Ups and downs of Yiddish in America / Ruth R. Wisse; title: Images with teeth : the political influence of artwork in American Yiddish periodicals, 1910s-1930s / Lauren B. Strauss; title: Yiddish scholars meet the Yiddish-speaking masses : language, the Americanization of YIVO, and the autobiography contest of 1942 / Daniel Soyer; title: The Yiddish cinema in America: a celebration of Jewish life / Eric A. Goldman; title: The worldly sounds of Yiddish radio / Ari Y. Kelman; title: This is not Europe, you know : the counter-maskilic impulse of American Yiddish drama / Joel Berkowitz; title: The influence of America on modern Yiddish poetry / Marc Miller; title: Breaking the silence on American Yiddish popular music / Hankus Netsky.