Description: 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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EAN: 9780271035376
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ISBN: 9780271035376
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Brand: Penn State University Press
Book Title: A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Jordan D. Finkin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 340g
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
