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Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

Norich, Anita

Paperback

Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

YiddishWriting InstructionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0295992972
ISBN13: 9780295992976
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Feb 1 2014
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.

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