A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling

by David Roskies

Book Overview

This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created copies that are better than the original.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674081390
• ISBN13: 9780674081390
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.7"