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Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Ser.: Marriage Made in Heaven : The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman (1997, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520201930
ISBN-139780520201934
eBay Product ID (ePID)729451
Product Key Features
Number of Pages188 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMarriage Made In Heaven : the Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish
Publication Year1997
SubjectHebrew, Judaism / General, General, Yiddish, Women's Studies, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorNaomi Seidman
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Religion, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesContraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-039172
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number7
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.44/089/924
SynopsisWith remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-length exploration of the sexual politics underlying the "marriage" of Hebrew and Yiddish, and it has profound implications for understanding the centrality of language choices and ideologies in the construction of modern Jewish identity. Seidman particularly examines this sexual-linguistic system as it shaped the work of two bilingual authors, S.Y. Abramovitsh, the "grand-father" of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; and Dvora Baron, the first modern woman writer in Hebrew (and a writer in Yiddish as well). She also provides an analysis of the roles that Hebrew "masculinity" and Yiddish "femininity" played in the Hebrew-Yiddish language wars, the divorce that ultimately ended the marriage between the languages. Theorists have long debated the role of mother and father in the child's relationship to language. Seidman presents the Ashkenazic case as an illuminating example of a society in which "mother tongue" and "father tongue" are clearly differentiated. Her work speaks to important issues in contemporary scholarship, including the psychoanalysis of language acquisition, the feminist critique of Zionism, and the nexus of women's studies and Yiddish literary history.
LC Classification NumberPJ5113b.S45 1997
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