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A Traveler Disguised: A Study in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

A Traveler Disguised: A Study in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century A Traueler Disguised: A Study in the Rise o M o d t m Yiddish Fiction in the f Nineteenth Century. By DANMIRON.New York: Schocken, 1973. xv 4- 347 pp. $10.95. A Traveler Disguised is a book about Yiddish litmature written in English by an Israeli critic whose normal language of communication must surely be Hebrew. Dan NIiron appears to address himself intentionally to a readership which knows little or no Yiddish (even words fiimiliar to any American watcher of late-night television are translated) but which is nevertheless interested in Yiddish literature or in the way that this, literature provides a case study of the novelist’s resolution, through formal aesthetic choices, of linguistic and cultural dilemmas. Although the ambiguous position of Yiddish as a literary language in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is by now familiar to students of this much-abused descendant of medieval German, h iron’s analysis of the ignof REVIEWS rant hostility of Jewish Maskilim (“enlighteners”) toward the language is the best 1 have read. He reminds us.that Yiddish was actually without its proper name until the very end of the nineteenth century, having been referred to first as Yidish-daylsh (“Judaeo-German”) and then (more infamously) as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Duke University Press

A Traveler Disguised: A Study in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 1975 by University of Washington
ISSN
0026-7929
eISSN
1527-1943
DOI
10.1215/00267929-36-1-91
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A Traueler Disguised: A Study in the Rise o M o d t m Yiddish Fiction in the f Nineteenth Century. By DANMIRON.New York: Schocken, 1973. xv 4- 347 pp. $10.95. A Traveler Disguised is a book about Yiddish litmature written in English by an Israeli critic whose normal language of communication must surely be Hebrew. Dan NIiron appears to address himself intentionally to a readership which knows little or no Yiddish (even words fiimiliar to any American watcher of late-night television are translated) but which is nevertheless interested in Yiddish literature or in the way that this, literature provides a case study of the novelist’s resolution, through formal aesthetic choices, of linguistic and cultural dilemmas. Although the ambiguous position of Yiddish as a literary language in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is by now familiar to students of this much-abused descendant of medieval German, h iron’s analysis of the ignof REVIEWS rant hostility of Jewish Maskilim (“enlighteners”) toward the language is the best 1 have read. He reminds us.that Yiddish was actually without its proper name until the very end of the nineteenth century, having been referred to first as Yidish-daylsh (“Judaeo-German”) and then (more infamously) as

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Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary HistoryDuke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1975

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