Feeling Jewish: a book for just about everyone Dictionaries Professor Wisse traces the development

Professor Wisse traces the development of modern Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and describes the many shifts that took place between the Yiddish writers and the world about which they wrote

and profiles several important historical figures

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translated this first English edition and devoted herself to the task of conveying to the American reader the individual quality of the Yiddish original

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Feeling Jewish: a book for just about everyone Dictionaries Professor Wisse traces the developmentn this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewisheven when youre not. Self hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on