Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America.

• Superior document: Jewish Latin America : issues and methods ; Volume 10
• Author: Malena Chinski; Alan Astro (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Chinski, Malena,; Astro, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin America 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 pages).
• Other title: Introduction /; On the History of Yiddish in Latin America --; The Yiddish Side of Jewish Brazil: Cultural Endeavors and Literary Heritage /; Yiddish Culture After the Shoah: Refugee Writers and Artists as “Fresh Creative Energies” for Buenos Aires /; The Abandonment of Yiddish by the Jewish-Argentine Communist Icuf /; Reading Yiddish Literary Works --; Baginen by José Winiecki: The Dawn of the Ashkenazic Jewish Community of Mexico in a Didactic Key /; Yiddish and Criollismo: The Case of Mordkhe Alperson’s Der “lindzhero” /; Stories by Two Yiddish Writers in Uruguay: Shloyme Zytner and Elie Verblun /; Individual Portraits --; Simja Sneh: A Language in Solitude /; Pinie Katz and I /; Becoming Cuban in Yiddish: The Poetry of Eliezer Aronowsky /; Der freylekhster yid in Argentine: The Life and Death of Jevl Katz, Popular Artist of the 1930s /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004373810
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America presents Yiddish culture as it developed in an area seldom associated with the language. Yet several countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay—became centers for Yiddish literature, journalism, political activism, theater, and music. Chapters by historians, linguists, and literary critics explore the flourishing of Yiddish there in the early 20th century, its retraction in the 1960’s, and contemporary endeavors to rescue this marginalized legacy. Topics discussed in the volume include the literary figures of the “Jewish gaucho” and the peddler; the regional Yiddish press; the communal struggle against trafficking in women; cultural responses to the Holocaust; intra-Jewish conflict during the Cold War; debates on assimilation versus tradition; and emergent postvernacular Yiddish.