A bridge of longing : the lost art of Yiddish storytelling
This text describes how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their hopes and fears in the languages of tradition. It suggests that there lies an aesthetic and moral sensibility totally at odds with Jewish humour and piety
Print Book, English, 1996
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1996