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- Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Michigan Studies In Comparative Jewish Cultures
summary
This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.
Table of Contents
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- Jewish Linguistic Spectrum
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1. Contesting Perceptions
- Part 2. Resituating Languages
- Part 3. Multi-languages
- Part 4. Across Time
- Part 5. Writers Reflect
- Chapter 14. When Spelling Counts
- pp. 381-385
- Chapter 16. Yiddish: It’s Complicated
- pp. 394-406
- Contributors
- pp. 407-412
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472121670
Related ISBN(s)
9780472053018, 9780472073016
MARC Record
OCLC
948511673
Pages
452
Launched on MUSE
2016-05-11
Language
English
Open Access
No