In Geveb: There's a Jewish Way of Saying Things; Essays in Honor of David Roskies

H-Judaic ToC: In Geveb: There's a Jewish Way of Saying Things; Essays in Honor of David Roskies

Discussion published by Jillian Davidson on Sunday, August 23, 2020

In Geveb a journal of Yiddish Studies, is pleased to announce a special issue. "There's a Jewish Way of Saying Things" is a collection of essays in honor ofDavid Roskies reflecting on the resonances between Jewish speech and Jewish texts, guest-edited by Avraham Rosen and Jillian Davidson.

You can access the issue online at In Geveb: https://ingeveb.org/issues/theres-a-jewish-way-of-saying-things

CONTENTS

Editor’s Introduction: There’s a Jewish Way of Saying Things by Avraham (Alan) Rosen

I. Speaking Jewish Traditionally Translating as Saying by Lawrence Rosenwald The Choir and the Orchestra: Two Kinds of Divine Praise by George Savran Talmud Talk and Jewish Talk by David Kraemer Critical Discourse as a Jewish Thing and Its Beginnings in the Bible by Edward L. Greenstein

II. Speaking in Jewish Tongues Der Alter Tevye Lebt!: Speech and Communication by Ruth R. Wisse Viva Voce: Vicissitudes of the Spoken Word in Hebrew Literature by Alan Mintz Sholem Aleichem's Stempenyu: Speaking through Song by Avraham Novershtern Raysn: The Belarusian Frontier of Yiddish Modernism by Mikhail Krutikov Badkhones in Life and Cinema: A Reading of the Marshalik in the 1937 Dybbuk Film by Joel Rosenberg Hertz Grosbard’s Jewspeak: The Lost Art of Word Concerts by Agnieszka Legutko Nit dos dorf, nit di kretshme: Speaking About Jewish Taverns in the Works of Sholem Aleichem by Adi Mahalel

III. Speaking Jewish and the Holocaust Orphaned Words: Yiddish, English, and Child Speech in Postwar Cinema by Hannah Pollin-Galay The Fourth Child by Hillel Schwartz Double or Nothing: Jewish Speech and Silence in Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance by Marc Caplan Letters Without Addresses: Abraham Sutzkever’s Late Style by Saul Noam Zaritt Split Identity: Jewish Scholarship in the Vilna Ghetto by David Fishman

IV. Speaking Anglo Jewish Breaking Ground, Broken English: Abraham Cahan’s The Imported Bridegroom by Hana Wirth- Nesher Cod Yiddish From Across the Pond: Howard Jacobson’s Finklerspeak by Jillian Davidson

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