London Yiddishtown : East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950 9780814348499, 9780814348475, 9780814348482

Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914 9780814343562, 0814343562

Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural

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London, a Sketch Book 1347489436, 9781347489437

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization

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East Enders: Family and community in East London 9781847425690

This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood r

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 9780773585898, 0773585893

Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century, Margolis explores the lives

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The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature 1900755777, 9781900755771

To what extent do Yiddish language and literature reflect dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did th

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905-1945 9780773585898

How Montreal's Yiddish community ensured its lasting cultural importance and influence. In 1931, ninety-nine perc

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Journey to Oblivion: The End of the East European Yiddish and German Worlds in the Mirror of Literature 9781487585808

Using epic works of literature, Journey to Oblivion examines the two linguistically related cultures and how their symbi

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A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature 9780271078144

This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalis

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Never Say Die!: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters [Reprint 2010 ed.] 9783110820805, 9789027979780

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Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life 9780814340226, 0814340229

Eli’s Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life is first and foremost a biography. Its subject is Eli G. Rochelson, MD (190

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