A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Zaritt, Saul Noam
A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Zaritt, Saul Noam

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern...
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A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Zaritt, Saul Noam

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

$111.82
A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Zaritt, Saul Noam

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

$111.82
Author: Saul Noam Zaritt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Saul Noam Zaritt calls for a shift in vocabulary, from Yiddish to taytsh, in order to promote reading strategies that account for the ways texts named as Jewish move between languages and cultures.

Yiddish, a moniker that became dominant only in the early twentieth century, means "Jewish" and thus marks the language with a single identity: of and for a Jewish collective. In contrast, this book calls attention to an earlier and, at one time, more common name for the language: taytsh, which initially means "German." By using the term taytsh, speakers indicated that they were indeed speaking a Germanic language, a language that was not entirely their own. In time, when the word shifted to a verb, taytshn, it came to mean the act of translation. To write or speak in Yiddish is thus to render into taytsh and inhabit the gap between languages.

A Taytsh Manifesto highlights the cultural porousness that inheres in taytsh and deploys the term as a paradigm that can be applied to a host of modern Jewish cultural formations. The book reads three corpora in modern Yiddish culture through the lens of translation: Yiddish pulp fiction, also known as shund (trash); the genre of the Yiddish monologue as authored by Sholem Aleichem and other prominent Yiddish writers; and the persistence of Yiddish as a language of vulgarity in contemporary U.S. culture. Together these examples help revise current histories of Yiddish while demonstrating the need for new vocabularies to account for the multidirectionality of Jewish culture. A Taytsh Manifesto develops a model for identifying, in Yiddish and beyond, how cultures intertwine, how they become implicated in world systems and empire, and how they might escape such limiting and oppressive structures.

Author: Saul Noam Zaritt
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781531509170

About the Author
Saul Noam Zaritt is Associate Professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody (Oxford, 2020).
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