Yiddish Language and Culture
Subtitle: Then and Now. (Studies in Jewish Civilization)
Publisher: CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781881871255
Subjects: Yiddish Literature; Literary Criticism; Religion - Judaism; Literature: Classics; Judaism - General; Yiddish; Religion / Judaism / Conservative; Jewish
Description: Yiddish language and literature played a major role in the lives of millions of Eastern European Jews, both in their homelands and in the centers to which they immigrated in America. Aspects of that culture have continued to be enjoyed and explored by Jews and non-Jews alike in many "translated" contexts. Yiddish, then, clearly has a past and and something of a present. Its future, in doubt according to some, should be vibrant, if considerably changed, in the opinion of others.

These are among the topics and issues addressed in this series of papers, which manage to be scholarly, lyrical, challenging, and evocative all at the same time.