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Double Talk: Toward a Yiddish Poetics of the Self
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Marcus Moseley; Marcus Moseley
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring 2007, pp.8-10.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Language and languages)
Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Keywords: Yiddish; Literature; Culture; Jewish Identification
Type: Report
Abstract:
The author traces the idea that Yiddish-speaking Jews feel themselves to be split or dual in nature through the works of Ahad Ha'am, Michah Yosef Berdichevsky, Sholem Aleichem, and others.