,Double Talk: Toward a Yiddish Poetics of the Self

Double Talk: Toward a Yiddish Poetics of the Self


 

Publication Date: January 2007

Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies

Author(s): Marcus Moseley; Marcus Moseley

Research Area: Culture and religion

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.