UID:
edoccha_9958057564902883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 160 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-585-05724-9
Series Statement:
Contraversions ; 7
Content:
"A Marriage Made in Heaven is a history of how Hebrew and Yiddish came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. It is the first book-length exploration of the historical associations between Yiddish and Jewish women and Hebrew and Jewish men, tracing these associations back to the seventeenth century and the sexual segregation of reading audiences. Documenting the eventual rise of Yiddish "women's" literature, Seidman also examines this sexual-linguistic system as it shaped the work of two bilingual authors: Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, the "grandfather" of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and Dvora Baron, the first woman prose writer in modern Hebrew. She then analyzes the roles Yiddish "femininity" and Hebrew "masculinity" played in the Hebrew-Yiddish language wars, the divorce that ultimately ended the Hebrew-Yiddish "marriage.""--Jacket.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction: Toward a Reading of Hebrew-Yiddish Internal Bilingualism --
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Engendering Audiences: Hebrew, Yiddish, and the Question of Address --
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Transsexual Imagination: A Reading of Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Bilingualism --
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Baron "In the Closet": An Epistemology of the "Women's Section" --
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Stormy Divorce: The Sexual Politics of the Hebrew-Yiddish "Language War."
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-20193-0
Language:
English
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