Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual Hardcover 2002

Hardcover 2002

Drawing on scholarship in a range of disciplines

In conversation with Islamic studies

paired with original commentary and art

Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual Hardcover 2002In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrewthe language of the Jewish religious and intellectual traditionand Yiddishthe East European Jewish vernacularwere a match made in heaven that cannot be separated. That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the exes really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an