Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture, edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch, and Shiri Goren textbook-shipeasy No mere bystander to history

No mere bystander to history

Recounting the tales of Polish Jews in the second half of the nineteenth century – a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change – the novel depicts the Jewish community moving from the ghetto to prominence within Polish society

and the fragmented

between real and imagined

Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture, edited by Hannah S. Pressman, Lara Rabinovitch, and Shiri Goren textbook-shipeasy No mere bystander to historyYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman have gathered a diverse and richly layered collection of essays that demonstrates the currency of Yiddish scholarship in academia today.