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Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust
by Ilan Stavans • Marc Caplan • Jarrod Tanny • David Shneer • Anna Shternshis • Gabriel N. Finder • Jan Schwarz • Avinoam Patt • David Slucki • Steve Whitfield • Jennifer Caplan • Liat Steir Livny • Jordana Silverstein • Ferne PearlsteinLaughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in repres... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
by Dara Horn • Jeffrey Shandler • Jeremy Dauber • Josh Lambert • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett • Kalman Weiser • Hasia Diner • Ari Y. Kelman • Tony Michels • Gennady Estraikh • Sarah Bunin Benor • Anita Norich • Rebecca Margolis • Zehavit Stern • Asya Vaisman • Shiri Goren • Lara Rabinovitch • Gerben Zaagsma • Edward Portnoy • Jennifer Young • Ela Bauer • Shachar Pinsker • Shayn Smulyan • Adriana X. Jacobs • Barbara Mann • Jordan Finkin • Rebecca Kobrin • Hannah S. Pressman • Anna ShternshisYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
by Zvi Gitelman • Mikhail Krutikov • Stephanie Sandler • Anna Shternshis • Sveta Roberman • Uzi Rebhun • Jonathan Dekel-Chen • Adrian Wanner • Nelly Elias • Steven J. Gold • Mark Tolts • Hannah Pollin-Galay • Julia Lerner • Marina Sapritsky • Elena Nosenko-Shtein • Olena Bagno-Moldavski • Eliezer Ben-Rafael • Gur Ofer • Yaacov Ro'IIn 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016