Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America.
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, an...
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| Superior document: | Jewish Latin America : issues and methods ; Volume 10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Latin America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Malena Chinski and Alan Astro
- On the History of Yiddish in Latin America
- The Yiddish Side of Jewish Brazil: Cultural Endeavors and Literary Heritage / Roney Cytrynowicz
- Yiddish Culture After the Shoah: Refugee Writers and Artists as “Fresh Creative Energies” for Buenos Aires / Malena Chinski
- The Abandonment of Yiddish by the Jewish-Argentine Communist Icuf / Israel Lotersztain
- Reading Yiddish Literary Works
- Baginen by José Winiecki: The Dawn of the Ashkenazic Jewish Community of Mexico in a Didactic Key / Tamara Gleason Freidberg
- Yiddish and Criollismo: The Case of Mordkhe Alperson’s Der “lindzhero” / Susana Skura and Lucas Fiszman
- Stories by Two Yiddish Writers in Uruguay: Shloyme Zytner and Elie Verblun / Alan Astro
- Individual Portraits
- Simja Sneh: A Language in Solitude / Perla Sneh
- Pinie Katz and I / Javier Sinay
- Becoming Cuban in Yiddish: The Poetry of Eliezer Aronowsky / Rosa Perelmuter
- Der freylekhster yid in Argentine: The Life and Death of Jevl Katz, Popular Artist of the 1930s / Ariel Svarch.