Lara Rabinovitch recently received her PhD in
modern Jewish history from New York University. She is working on
two book projects: one on early twentieth-century Romanian Jewish
migration, and a second book about Little Rumania on the Lower East
Side of New York. As managing editor for two years, she helped
launch McGill Universitys CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food
Cultures / Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada in 2008.
Shiri Goren is a senior lector in modern Hebrew at
Yale University. Her areas of specialisation include modern Hebrew
literature and culture, Israeli film, Yiddish literature, the
novel, and gender and sexuality. She is currently working on a book
manuscript that explores how violence affects real and imagined
spaces in Israel of recent years. Gorens articles and reviews have
appeared in Modern Hebrew Literature, The American Jewish Archives
Journal, and AJS Perspectives, among other venues.
Hannah S. Pressman is currently an affiliate
instructor for the Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program at
the University of Washington. Her scholarly work focuses on issues
of translation, language, and Jewish modernism; Hebrew and Yiddish
literatures; and the cultural history of Zionism. She is a former
NYU MacCracken Fellow, Wexner Graduate Fellow, Hort Fellow at YIVO,
and Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of
Washington.
Choosing Yiddish fills a niche not yet addressed by previous
collections, and marks the growth of Yiddish Studies in tandem with
Jewish Studies. The essays provide for the most part a fresh and
timely perspective on historical and current topics, utilizing
innovative research sources and methods to shed light on issues
that remain relevant. . . . Diverse, intriguing, and inspiring,
Choosing Yiddish is indeed a worthwhile choice. Recommended for
academic libraries collecting in the area of Jewish
Studies.--Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel "Association of Jewish
Libraries Reviews"
An impressively wide-ranging survey of current work in Yiddish
studies, Choosing Yiddish is at once a sgule-a remedy-for
Yiddishist fears about the future of the discipline and an
inducement to non-Yiddishists to become part of that future, if
only to hang out with the smart kids.--Michael Wex
From a research point of view, those who would document,
understand, and study Yiddish today must come prepared with revised
notions about what comprises linguistic, religious, ethnic, and
cultural identity. Indeed, it is precisely the mix of descriptive
realism and prescriptive advocacy elicited by Yiddish that makes it
such a fascinating topic of sociolinguistic research and that makes
Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman's Choosing
Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture such a welcome
addition to the Yiddish studies conversation.--Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe
"Journal of Jewish Languages"
Much can be gained from reading the articles in Choosing
Yiddish.--Zelda Kahan Newman "H-Net Judaic"
Optimistic Yiddishists find signs of life for the Yiddish language.
One of the most surprising ones is the resurgence of interest in
Yiddish in the academic world. The number of students actually
studying the Yiddish language at most universities is low, but the
number of professors researching and writing about Yiddish
language, literature and culture is growing quickly. . . . I
enjoyed this book and recommend it if you're interested in
Yiddish.--Martin Lockshin, Canadian Jewish News
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