Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Case of the Tautological Infinitive
2. The Language of Jewish Discourse
3. Jewish Discourse and Modern Yiddish Poetry
4. Conversational Orchestration in the Tsenerene and Sholem Aleykhem
5. Y. L. Perets’s Conversational Art in Yiddish and Hebrew
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
—Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University
