{"product_id":"discovering-exile-9780804756907","title":"Discovering Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Discovering Exile is a vital, compact study of a formative moment in American Jewish culture when writers in both English and Yiddish began to confront the holocaust and its implications. Probing politics of representation, Norich uncovers the crucial role of Yiddish in American Jewish culture and American literary modernism.\" -- Tony Michels * \u003ci\u003eAJS\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, Anita Norich restores a significant part of Jewish American cultural and literary history that had been supplanted by a prevailing myth of what she calls \"gradual dissipation,\" the notion that Yiddish culture was somehow divided and displaced by English and thereby split from its Yiddish roots. Instead, she shows how Yiddish and English speaking worlds of the thirties, forties, and beyond drew on each other for inspiration. In rehistoricizing the living, breathing American Jewish life of these decades, Norich also gives us back an era long lost to historians who made the Holocaust the central and therefore over-determining event of the twentieth century. The result is a first-rate literary history of a largely overlooked world.\" -- James E. Young * University of Massachusetts, Amherst *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her fascinating study of this traditional view\/assumption, Norich examines the premises of historical and cultural pressures that determined Jewish fate from the optimistic 18th-centruy Enlightenment to its violent end in the concentration-camp universe Including helpful notes and an extensive bibliography, this thought-provoking study will reward a broad audience with fresh insights and better understanding.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Acknowledgments\t\txxx  Introduction\t\t1  1. Cultural Questions, Jewish Answers\t\t000  2. \"Good Night, World:\" Yankev Glatshteyn's Ambivalent   Rejection\t\t000  3. Sholem Asch and the Christian Question\t\t000  4. From the Politics of Culture to the Culture of Mourning\t  \t000  Epilogue\t\t000  Appendix 1. Selected News Review in Contemporary Jewish   Record\t000  Appendix 2. Translation of Rachel Auerbach's \"Amol iz geven   a meylekh\" [Once There   Was a King]\t\t000  Notes\t\t000  Bibliography\t\t000  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405570351447,"sku":"9780804756907","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804756907.jpg?v=1730492871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discovering-exile-9780804756907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}