A Marriage Made in Heaven : The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish.

With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-le...

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Main Author: Seidman, Naomi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series.
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