Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books for women, holy books for men' in the opening scene of the popular movie Yentl. Yet it is well known that the traditional dichotomy...
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Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line 'Story books for women, holy books for men' in the opening scene of the popular movie Yentl. Yet it is well known that the traditional dichotomy oversimplifies the issue of gender in Yiddish literature. This volume seeks to give a more multi-faceted picture of the topic, investigating the representation of gender in Yiddish literary works, the gendered self-representation of Yiddish authors, and the (implied) expectations with respect to the gender of the Yiddish target readership. It also considers debates and reflections about gender in Yiddish literary criticism and journalism, exploring the participation and positioning of Yiddish cultural critics in this discourse
The old Yiddish Seder Nošlim and the Querelle des Femmes / Arnaud Bikard -- The Marxist theory of primeval matriarchy in Yiddish intellectual discourse: gender between anti-religious radicalism, Orthodox Judaism, and a new metaphysics of Yidishkayt / Roland Gruschka -- 'Mother, in the chain of generations, I am the broken link between you and my child': the experience of being a mother and a daughter in Yiddish poetry by women / Joanna Lisek -- Yidishe Dikhterins, nice Jewish girls: creating communities in Jewish literary history / Zohar Weiman-Kelman -- The best-selling Shomer and his fear of emancipated women / Gennady Estraikh -- Dreams of a Jewish queen: a literary itinerary of national-sexual desires, from the book of Esther to Aaron Zeitlin's Esterke / Roni Masel -- Between Talmud and feminism: Bashevis Singer's playful jugglery in his bilingual corpus / Valentine Fedchenko -- The forbidden fruit: gender and desire in David Hofstein's early poetry / Sabine Koller -- 'Ikh hob lib shlangen': virility and Di Yunge / Eitan Kensky -- Gendered war in Aharon Reuveni's Yerusholahim in Shotn fun Shverd / Yaakov Herskovitz -- The Kmoy-conquest of South America: Yankev Botoshansky and the masculine imaginary of Yiddish literature / William Gertz Runyan -- The 'bathroom crisis' in the shtetl: transgender identity and homoerotic anxiety in Isaac Bashevis Singer / Alexandra Tali Herzog
