{"product_id":"a-lingering-legacy-the-afterlife-of-yiddish-in-german-jewish-culture-1818-1938-9781503645998","title":"A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818-1938","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. From the late eighteenth century onwards, as growing circles of the German-Jewish population shifted from speaking Yiddish to German, the once-popular early modern corpus of Old Yiddish literature ceased to be published in the German-speaking lands. But this rich literary corpus did not entirely disappear from the cultural landscape of modern German Jews. Aya Elyada shows how Old Yiddish texts continued to be retold, translated, adapted, discussed, and explored in the works of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century German Jewish authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In doing so, she uncovers a rich afterlife, in which these beloved Yiddish works were not only newly appreciated as historical monuments, but served as the focus of lively discussions on a range of pertinent topics within modern German-Jewish culture, including tradition and secularization, acculturation and nostalgia, emancipation and antisemitism, gender relations, and religious reform. Illuminating how modern German-Jewish authors engaged with their premodern Yiddish heritage as central to modern Jewish experience and their distinctive cultural identity, this book unfolds a new dimension to German-Jewish history, culture, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAya Elyada\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2012), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGerman-Jewish Studies: Next Generations\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196543463698,"sku":"9781503645998","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6c70306-9d0e-4096-ae0f-85ff7c5e27fe.jpg?v=1776153425","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-lingering-legacy-the-afterlife-of-yiddish-in-german-jewish-culture-1818-1938-9781503645998","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}