A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling by David Roskies
A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling

David Roskies

A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling

David Roskies

419 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are mod...

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