Yiddish Lives On

Strategies of Language Transmission

Rebecca Margolis

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Année: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780228015512
• Sujet: Ciencias sociales
• Sous-sujet: Estudios judíos

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes.Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Table des matières

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Tables and Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Yiddish Canada, Yiddish Ideologies
• 2 Yiddish Spoken in Families: The 1950s to the Present
• 3 Yiddish in Youth Theatre and Activism: The 1960s and 1970s
• 4 Yiddish Writing and Publishing: The 1970s and 1980s
• 5 Yiddish Singing: The 1990s and 2000s
• 6 Yiddish in New Media and Cinema: 2000 to 2020
• Afterword
• Appendix: Yiddish Books Published by Canadian Resident Writers, 1945–2020
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index