Word: yiddisher
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...writer is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature...
...writer is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature...
...want the cleanest, most direct, simplest, most expressive possible language. The violence of the language is directly tailored to the violence of the story that I am telling. I love the American idiom, I love profane American language, I love Yiddish, I love racist argot, I love this whole obscene potpourri of the American tongue, and I love putting it into my books...
...author, a Canadian-born Ivy Leaguer whose resume lists work on the Forward, the English-language version of New York City's aged Yiddish daily. The other protagonist, schooled at New York State's best correctional institutions, has an arrest record that includes assault, drug dealing and firing a machine pistol from a speeding...
...saltiest lines but also the feistiest roles. Childless Hanna-Leah, the butcher's wife, is freed from disappointment by an ecstatic vision and demands that her husband share the housework. Faygela, poet-mother of five, travels to Warsaw, where she encounters a circle of secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish as "the dialect of garlic." Years later, one of Faygela's daughters converts to the new heresies of Darwin and Marx, and is arrested for distributing radical pamphlets. Another daughter interprets Little Red Riding Hood as a unionist parable: "She goes on strike, and the big, bad boss...