Splendor, decline, and rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2018]
Description:	ix, 253 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Jewish Latin America, 2211-0968 ; volume 10 Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v.10.
Subject:	Jews -- Latin America -- Intellectual life. Yiddish language -- Latin America. Jews -- Intellectual life. Yiddish language. Yiddish literature. Latin America.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11735884

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Other authors / contributors:	Chinski, Malena, editor. Astro, Alan, editor.
ISBN:	9789004373808 9004373802 9789004373815
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"One of the great population movements in history was that of Jews from Eastern Europe, millions of whom emigrated from the 1880s to the 1950s. They were bearers of a traditional but also modern culture in Yiddish, with a burgeoning literature, theater and press"--

Table of Contents:

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
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
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.

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