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Finkin, Jordan D.

 
9780271035376: A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0271035374 ISBN 13 : 9780271035376
Editeur : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it "Hebonics".) These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to the novels of Saul Bellow to contemporary television. What has received less attention is what allowed these modern forms to flow from a rich body of Yiddish literature. This book fills that gap by exploring the language of modern Yiddish literature, addressing emblematically why Jews answer a question with a question. Through a series of case studies, A Rhetorical Conversation explores various distinctive aspects of Yiddish literature to explain the nature and importance of Jewish discourse: the way of speaking, writing, arguing, and thinking developed by Yiddish culture based on prolonged and intimate contact with traditional texts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jordan D. Finkin is Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford.

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Éditeur
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271035374
ISBN 13 
9780271035376
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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