Yiddish Language & Culture Then & Now
Author | : Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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A selection of 15 papers from the October 1996 gathering of the annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska. The topics include anger and homecoming in 20th-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture and urban landscape in interwar Vilna, the Yiddish theater in Omaha from 1919 to 1969, and the metamorphosis of the matriarchs in modern Yiddish poetry. No index. Distributed in the US by Fordham University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR