Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature by Merle L. Bachman bilingual having to do with sex

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and other hierarchies function in family politics

Ashkenazi Herbalism rediscovers the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in Eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement

Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials

Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature by Merle L. Bachman bilingual having to do with sexAccording to traditional narratives of assimilation, in the bargain made for an American identity, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture. Or did they? Recovering "Yiddishland" seeks to return readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. It reconstructs Yiddishland as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York.