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A Marriage Made in Heaven The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish.
With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-le...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Collection: | Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-length exploration of the sexual politics underlying the ""marriage"" of Hebrew and Yiddish, and it has profound implications for understanding the centrality of lang. |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (172 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9780520311800 0520311809 |