I Am Your Dust Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967 |
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| Author:
| Drucker Bar-Am, Gali |
| Translator:
| Melzer, Natalie |
| Series title: | Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-07152-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2024 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $57.99 |
Book Description:
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Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many different languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its reality from angles that the makers of Hebrew-Israeli culture did not know and all too often lacked the tools to express.
I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967 expands the...
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Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many different languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its reality from angles that the makers of Hebrew-Israeli culture did not know and all too often lacked the tools to express.
I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967 expands the boundaries of current studies of Israel's cultural history by presenting and analyzing Yiddish-Israeli prose written during the country's first two decades as an independent state. It offers a comprehensive study of that unique, and hitherto little understood, literature, a detailed historical documentation of the contexts of its production, and an eye-opening comparison of its themes to the more familiar outputs of Hebrew-Israeli prose.
I Am Your Dust is the first socioliterary investigation of Yiddish-Israeli culture, and it explores how Yiddish-Israeli writers played a vital role in shaping the country's cultural identity in its early years.