Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century

by Anita Norich

Book Overview

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295992964
• ISBN13: 9780295992969
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher