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Station identification: The culture of Yiddish radio in New York, 1923--1947.
No full textThe coincident rise of the radio as a medium of popular culture and the end of large-scale immigration to the United States provides an aperture for examining the processes and practices by which immigrants made sense of America. These immigrants cultivated particular ethnic practices in response to the experience of immigration that framed their new American environment in culturally familiar terms. Primarily an English-speaking medium, broadcast radio brought popular American culture into immigrant homes. However, during the 1920s and 1930s, the evolving structure of American radio included numerous opportunities for immigrant communities to air their own messages in their own languages, to an ethnically, linguistically, and geographically limited population. Alongside its English language counterpart, Yiddish language radio in New York fostered a vibrant popular culture constructed out of conversations among broadcasters and performers who spoke Yiddish, audiences who understood it, sponsors who sought to capitalize on it, and evolving federal agencies that sought to regulate it. The interests of these respective and occasionally overlapping groups shaped the aural culture that enabled Jewish immigrants and their children negotiate their newly American lives in Yiddish and in English. However, language proved only one of the areas in which the culture of Yiddish language radio fostered a vital set of cultural practices. The presence of Yiddish speakers on the air begged questions regarding the relationship between ethnicity and religion for Jewish immigrants, as the nature of Jewish life in America continued to evolve. While opening up a discussion of religion, the highly local appeal of New York's Yiddish language radio created a vibrant circuit of economic and cultural exchange rooted in the city's Jewish immigrant communities. Beneath overt discussions of language, ethnicity, religion, and location lay the larger question regarding the relationship between Jews an America. As intent on Americanization as Jewish immigrants were, what kind of relationship did Yiddish-speaking radio broadcast, and what kinds of practices did its listeners develop in order to negotiate their lives that took shape on both Jewish and American terms?Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2003.School code: 0146
Hear the difference: "Minor" forms and modern consciousness in Yiddish and African literature.
No full textThis dissertation examines the development of narrative form in 19 th century Yiddish and 20th century West African literature. Engaging with the theory of "minor" literature articulated by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, this study adds to their framework for identifying "minor" literature---the deterritorialization of language, the connection of the individual to a political immediacy, and the collective assemblage of enunciation---a focus on the adaptation of essentially oral cultures to new modes of written discourse, as well as a discussion of intrinsically and extrinsically deterritorialized languages. In addition to the work of Deleuze and Guattari, the dissertation evaluates the work of theorists such as Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Ong, Frantz Fanon, and Benedict Anderson.The first part of the dissertation discusses the history of Jewish East Europe and British-dominated West Africa, focusing on the first modern literary figures in these two cultures, Reb Nakhman of Breslov and Amos Tutuola. This comparison culminates with a comparison, along lines suggested by Vladimir Propp, of Reb Nakhman's first story, "The Story of a Lost Princess," with the "Complete Gentleman" episode from Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Part Two offers a discussion of the first consciously modern ideologies in Jewish Eastern Europe and Francophone Africa--- haskole (the "Jewish Enlightenment") and negritude. This comparison focuses primarily on two narratives, the didactic tale Dos Vintshfingerl ("The Magic Ring") by Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher-Sforim), and the philosophical novel L'aventure ambigue ("Ambiguous Adventure") by Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Part Three discusses the breakdown of haskole and negritude by analyzing two later Abramovitsh novels, Di Kliatshe ("The Mare") and Masoes Benyomin hashlishi ("The Travels of Benjamin the Third"), in comparison with the Nigerian novel The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka and the Ivoirian novel Les Soleils des independences ("The Suns of Independence") by Ahmadou Kourouma. The dissertation as a whole concludes with a consideration of Jewish literature in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when Yiddish no longer offers the option of an intrinsically Jewish, international, "minor" literary language, and a discussion of the linguistic options available to African writers at the beginning of the 21st century.Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2003.School code: 0146
Diasporic sephardic identities: A transnational poetics of Jewish languages.
No full textIn this dissertation I depart from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's formula for "minor literatures" as presented in Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Using Chana Kronfeld's rebuttal of Deleuze and Guattari, I offer two counter-arguments to their position: first, I argue that minor literatures can emerge from multilingual contexts and social conditions, and second, that minor languages have the capacity to challenge and re-inscribe dominant languages. As counter-examples to their theory I present three multilingual and multicultural Jewish poets who write from an oppositional or marginal position and use minor and threatened languages---Algerian Sadia Levy, Israeli Margalit Matitiahu and Argentine Juan Gelman. I also argue that it is through strategic choices of competing languages and intertexts that each poet expresses a Sephardic hybrid identity. In the process, I point out how their work challenges established notions of ethnic, literary and linguistic identity.Sadia Levy is a late Symbolist Algerian poet who writes in a French enriched by infusions of Hebrew and sometimes Judeo-Spanish, activating biblical and Kabbalistic allusions in his poems, and combining two main universes of discourse---French Symbolist and Jewish. Israeli contemporary poet Margalit Matitiahu writes bilingual Hebrew-Ladino books, which reveal her active bilingualism in a society that worked so hard to erase "minor" languages while "reviving" Hebrew as it built a national state. Argentine Ashkenazi poet Juan Gelman destabilizes notions of fixed identity and breaks down dichotomic divisions of ethnic origins as he gradually rewrites himself as a Sephardic Jew at the very moment when he most identifies as a Jew.I brought into my reading several theories, among them formalist readings, Benjamin Harshav's concept of "frames of reference," Joshua Fishman's ethnolinguistics and his work on threatened languages, theories of translation and intertextuality and also of nationalism and diaspora. In a cross-cultural perspective, I combine stylistic analysis and cultural theory, because I believe that a stylistic analysis that is sociologically and historically informed is the best approach to a body of text that is not only multilingual, but that also thematizes the problem of language choice.This dissertation is also proposed as a step toward correcting an oversight of the Sephardic component in the Jewish cultural production. Centering on these three poets, it addresses the issue of competing narratives within Jewish cultural history, and focusing on intra-Jewish difference, it stresses the internal multiculturalism of the Jews.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.School code: 0028
"Zahlreich und wissensdurstig" : Juedische Frauen - die Pionierinnen des Frauenstudiums in Deutschland.
No full textJewish women were in the vanguard of women studying at colleges and universities in Germany.Ph.D. thesis at Universitaet Essen-Duisbur
Jüdische Friedhöfe im Stadtgebiet von Bad Münstereifel.
No full textA survey of the Jewish cemeteries in Bad Muenstereifel with map and photographs of tombstones with inscriptions
The Anti-Jewish Persecution in Italy.
No full textEnglish translation by John Grossmann of an Italian article, first published as L'Italia nella secunda guerra mondiale e nella resistenza by Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea.The original version is available in the LBI Library, DS 135 I_8 P49
The Pretsfelder family and the Jewish congregation of Hagenbach.
No full textHistory of a Jewish community in this part of “Switzerland in Franconia”, reaching back to the early 18th century, including maps, photographs, and documents
AHC Interview with Lore Lizbeth Waller
No full textLore Lizbeth Waller, 2003The photographer Lore Lizbeth Waller was born in 1918 in Vienna, Austria. She attended the prestigious “Schwarzwaldschule” and studied photography in Vienna. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938 Lore moved with her mother and younger sister to their relatives in Czechoslowakia. With the help of her mother’s friend she was able to obtain a permit as a domestic servant in England. She left for England in March of 1939. After the war she worked for the Civil Censorship Division (CCD) in post-war Germany and got a position as a photographer for “Stars and Stripes”. In 1952 she moved with her husband to the United States. The author lives in California.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Lore Waller's memoirs "View from a Distance" in the LBI library (DS 135 A93 W35 1993
The river of my time : Historical background to my life /
No full textRevision A of memoirs; older version available in AR 1087