I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967

di Gali Drucker Bar-Am (Autore)

Natalie Melzer (Traduttore)

Indiana University Press, 2024

Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its reality from angles that the makers of Hebrew-Israeli culture did not know and all too often lacked the tools to express. I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967 expands the boundaries of current studies of Israel's cultural history by presenting and analyzing Yiddish-Israeli prose written during the country's first two decades as an independent state. It offers a comprehensive study of that unique, and hitherto little understood, literature, a detailed historical documentation of the contexts of its production, and an eye-opening comparison of its themes to the more familiar outputs of Hebrew-Israeli prose. I Am Your Dust is the first socioliterary investigation of Yiddish-Israeli culture, and it explores how Yiddish-Israeli writers played a vital role in shaping the country's cultural identity in its early years.

• Autore: Gali Drucker Bar-Am
• Traduttore: Natalie Melzer
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Collana: Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 394 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9780253071514

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