Yiddishkeit

A “fascinating and enlightening” collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience (The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side. This comics anthology contains original stories by such notable writers and artists as Barry Deutsch, Peter Kuper, Spain Rodriguez, and Sharon Rudahl. Through illustrations, comics art, and a full-length play, four major themes are explored: culture, performance, assimilation, and the revival of the language. “The book is about what Neal Gabler in his introduction labels ‘Jewish...

ABRAMS Comic Arts Science Teenagers (13-18)
Adults (18+)
American art Ashkenazi assimilation CGN001000 CGN007020 collections comics culture eastern essays European FOR028000 graphic history illustrated immigrants Judaism LAN009050 language literature novels plays popular shtetls SOC049000 theater words Yiddish