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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 novelistâs 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 ironâs analysis of the ignof REVIEWS rant hostility of Jewish Maskilim (âenlightenersâ) 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 (âJudaeo-Germanâ) and then (more infamously) as
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1975
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