Reportage from Blotetown: Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin (Tashrak) and the Shtetlization of New York City
dc.contributor.author | Ribak, Gil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-09T01:28:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-09T01:28:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ribak, G. (2020). Reportage from Blotetown: Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin (Tashrak) and the Shtetlization of New York City. East European Jewish Affairs, 50(1-2), 57-74. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1350-1674 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13501674.2020.1774286 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/647657 | |
dc.description.abstract | The neglected-but-popular Yiddish humorist Tashrak (penname of Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin) offers not just an opportunity to discover understudied aspects of the Jewish urban experience and modern Yiddish culture, but also allows us to tap into a less refined level of beliefs, behavior, judgments and attitudes of Yiddish-speaking Jews in America. Tashrak wittily conveyed to his readers a comforting image of the New World: New York City was just an enlarged shtetl, whose Jewish residents clashed over a host of issues, while encountering a number of stereotypical non-Jews. In his representation of internal Jewish divisions and disputes, relations with non-Jews, and the trials of modernity and assimilation, Tashrak followed, to some extent, the literary paths of earlier Yiddish and Hebrew writers. Yet critics often frowned upon his politics as either conservative or apolitical, and considered his literary style as lowbrow, thus they disregarded his work altogether, or referred to it as worthless. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Informa UK Limited | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Yiddish literature | en_US |
dc.subject | New York City | en_US |
dc.subject | Shtetl | en_US |
dc.subject | Irish Americans | en_US |
dc.subject | German Americans | en_US |
dc.subject | conservatism | en_US |
dc.title | Reportage from Blotetown: Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin (Tashrak) and the Shtetlization of New York City | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1743-971X | |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Arizona Ctr Juda Studies | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH AFFAIRS | en_US |
dc.description.note | 18 month embargo; published online: 02 September 2020 | en_US |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final accepted manuscript | en_US |
dc.identifier.pii | 10.1080/13501674.2020.1774286 | |
dc.source.journaltitle | East European Jewish Affairs | |
dc.source.volume | 50 | |
dc.source.issue | 1-2 | |
dc.source.beginpage | 57 | |
dc.source.endpage | 74 |