Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual Despite their impossible situation

Despite their impossible situation

and steely persistence

Drawing upon a wealth of knowledge of Jewish folkways and customs

Joann Sfar

Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner bilingual Despite their impossible situationIn a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrewthe language of the Jewish religious and intellectual traditionand Yiddishthe East European Jewish vernacularwere a match made in heaven that cannot be separated. That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the exes really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an