Category - Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels
Format - Hardcover
Condition - New
Listed - 4 months ago
Views - 7
Wishes - 1
Ships From - Alaska
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2011
Seller Description
This comics anthology contains original stories by many notable writes and artists and traces the influence of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side. Peeling back layers of dogma and decades of turgid scholarship, Pekar and Buhle shed new light, providing a modern discourse to help readers grasp the nuances of this colorful language and nomadic culture. Oh, and the book is brand new. That worn, broken binding on the spine? That’s the printing on the dust jacket. Go ahead, take a look at the close up! Looks real and broken, doesn’t it? It’s not though! That’s just printed!
Additional Information
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & The New Land
ISBN: 9780810997493
Publisher Description
Yiddish is everywhere. We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz all the time, but how did these words come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land, Harvey Pe...
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