TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rojanski, Rachel
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Yiddish in Israel: a history
PB  - Indiana University Press
CY  - Bloomington, Indiana
KW  - Yiddish language
KW  - Israel
KW  - History
AB  - Acknowledgments.A note on transliteration, translation, and archival signatures.Introduction: "They are ashamed of us Yiddish writers.""Even the stones speak Hebrew": The melting pot and Israel's cultural policy --The heart of Yiddish culture: the Yiddish press 1948-1968 --"We are Jewish actors from the diaspora": Yiddish actors, Yiddish theater, and the Jewish State, 1948-1965 --"To assemble the scattered spirit of Israel": high Yiddish culture - Di goldene keyt and the Yiddish chair at the Hebrew university --"We are writing a new chapter in Yiddish literature": the literary group Yung Yisroel and the Zionist master narrative --"You no longer need to be afraid to love Yiddish": 1965, the production of Di megile, and the return of Eastern Europe to Israel's collective memory --The end of the twentieth century: private memory, collective image, and the retreat from the melting pot --Epilogue.Bibliography.Index.
SN  - 9780253045157
LA  - English
N1  - Rachel Rojanski
ID  - 1693124440
ER  -