A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Saul Noam Zaritt bilingual “What is really impressive about

“What is really impressive about this work is Brettschneider’s integration of personal anecdote with philosophical insight

offers the story of his life

The Sound of Exile examines how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai

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to Cornell University

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Saul Noam Zaritt bilingual “What is really impressive aboutA Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Saul Noam Zaritt calls for a shift in vocabulary, from Yiddish to taytsh, in order to promote reading strategies that account for the ways texts named as Jewish move between languages and cultures. Yiddish, a moniker that became dominant only in the early twentieth century, means Jewish and thus marks the language with a single