{"product_id":"how-yiddish-changed-america-and-how-america-changed-yiddish-9781632062628","title":"How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's \u003ci\u003eWhere the Wild Things Are\u003c\/i\u003e based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City's Lower East Side and follows Yiddish as it moves into Hollywood, Broadway, literature, politics, and resistance. We take deep dives into cuisine, language, popular culture, and even Yiddish in the other Americas, including Canada, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia. The book presents a bountiful menu of genres: essays, memoir, song, letters, poems, recipes, cartoons, conversations, and much more. Authors include Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and luminaries such as Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Grade, Michael Chabon, Abraham Cahan, Sophie Tucker, Blume Lempel, Irving Howe, Art Spiegelman, Alfred Kazin, Harvey Pekar, Ben Katchor, Paula Vogel, and Liana Finck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will laugh and cry as they delve into personal stories of assimilation and learn about people from a diverse variety of backgrounds, Jewish and not, who have made the language their own. The Yiddish saying states: \u003ci\u003eDer mentsh trakht un got lakht\u003c\/i\u003e. Man plans and God laughs. \u003ci\u003eHow Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how those plans are full of zest, dignity, and tremendous humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include \u003ci\u003eOn Borrowed Words\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpanglish\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDictionary Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Critic's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e. He has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Latino Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the three-volume set \u003ci\u003eIsaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda\u003c\/i\u003e, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile's Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans's work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast In Contrast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e is the academic director of the Yiddish Book Center and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He's the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (2009) and \u003ci\u003eUnclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), which received a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies and a Canadian Jewish Book Award. His reviews and essays have been published by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, Haaretz, Tablet, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eForward, \u003c\/i\u003e New England Public Radio, and many other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557112680722,"sku":"9781632062628","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f76bbff5-e0e0-42d2-8011-0f8e1fe25706.jpg?v=1731771703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-yiddish-changed-america-and-how-america-changed-yiddish-9781632062628","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}