Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual In conversation with Islamic studies

In conversation with Islamic studies

their real names are never given

who eventually becomes Grandma Rose—always watching and judging

Hardcover 2002

Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual In conversation with Islamic studiesIn a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrewthe language of the Jewish religious and intellectual traditionand Yiddishthe East European Jewish vernacularwere a match made in heaven that cannot be separated. That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the exes really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an