How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

About this book

Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.

It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City's Lower East Side and follows Yiddish as it moves into Hollywood, Broadway, literature, politics, and resistance. We take deep dives into cuisine, language, popular culture, and even Yiddish in the other Americas, including Canada, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia. The book presents a bountiful menu of genres: essays, memoir, song, letters, poems, recipes, cartoons, conversations, and much more. Authors include Nobel Prize–winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and luminaries such as Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Grade, Michael Chabon, Abraham Cahan, Sophie Tucker, Blume Lempel, Irving Howe, Art Spiegelman, Alfred Kazin, Harvey Pekar, Ben Katchor, Paula Vogel, and Liana Finck.

Readers will laugh and cry as they delve into personal stories of assimilation and learn about people from a diverse variety of backgrounds, Jewish and not, who have made the language their own. The Yiddish saying states: Der mentsh trakht un got lakht. Man plans and God laughs. How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish illustrates how those plans are full of zest, dignity, and tremendous humanity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Time Line
  4. Part I • Politics and Possibility
  5. A Ghetto Wedding
  6. The First Shock
  7. Letter to the Forverts Editor
  8. Against Marriage as Private Possession
  9. from Di goldene medine
  10. March of the Jobless Corps
  11. Di Freiheit, A Personal Reflection
  12. from The Jewish Unions in America
  13. The Triangle Fire
  14. from God of Vengeance
  15. On Zuni Maud
  16. The Bitter Drop
  17. Part II • The Mother Tongue Remixed
  18. Is Hebrew Male and Yiddish Female?
  19. The Maximalist’s Daughter
  20. Shopping for Yiddish in Boro Park
  21. O, R*O*S*T*E*N, My R*O*S*T*E*N!
  22. A Guide to Yiddish Sayings
  23. The Artificial Elephant
  24. Part III • Eat, Enjoy, and Forget
  25. Kosher Chinese?
  26. A Little Taste
  27. Carp, Rugelach, Egg Creams
  28. The Baker and the Beggar
  29. On Bagels, Gefilte Fish, and Tsholnt
  30. Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife
  31. Holy Mole and Kamish!
  32. Hering mit pateytes
  33. Part IV • American Commemoration
  34. The Cafeteria
  35. How Does It Feel to Be a Yiddish Writer in America?
  36. Literature, It’s Like Orgasm!
  37. Poems
  38. Poems
  39. Summoned Home
  40. Madame
  41. from Across America
  42. Oedipus in Brooklyn
  43. The New House
  44. Woe Is Me that My City Is Now Only a Memory
  45. Coney Island
  46. from Messiah in America
  47. Pour Out Thy Wrath
  48. Mr. Friedkin and Shoshana
  49. God of Mercy
  50. Torture
  51. Part V • Oy, the Children!
  52. Goodbye and Good Luck
  53. Sholem Aleichem’s Revolution
  54. Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History
  55. To Aunt Rose
  56. On Maurice Sendak’s Vilde khayes!
  57. Mama Goes Where Papa Goes
  58. On Being Indecent
  59. Yiddish Hollywood
  60. from A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
  61. Singer: A Purim Parody
  62. Dedications to Bashert
  63. from The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
  64. Between Vilna and Dixie
  65. Stan Mack’s Chronicles of Circumcision
  66. Part VI • The Other Americas
  67. A Room Named Ruth
  68. Flies and Little People (From a Trip to the West)
  69. Popocatépetl
  70. Bontshe Shvayg in Lethbridge
  71. The Yiddish Terrorist
  72. A Yidisher Bokher in Mexique
  73. Camacho’s Wedding Feast
  74. Permissions
  75. About the Editors
  76. Copyright Page