How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ilan Stavans (Editor), Josh Lambert (Editor)Publish date:2020-01-21Pages:512
Language:EnglishPublisher:Restless BooksISBN-13:9781632062628ISBN-10:1632062623UPC:9781632062628Book Category:History, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish, Jewish Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCW7DH7CBN
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Restless BooksISBN-13:9781632062628ISBN-10:1632062623UPC:9781632062628Book Category:History, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish, Jewish Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SCW7DH7CBN
Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic's Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo...
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