Harvey Pekar,Paul M. Buhle,Nick Thorkelson,Nathaniel Buchwald,Allen Lewis Rickman,Joel Schechter,Sharon Rudahl,Danny Fingeroth,Barry Deutsch,Marvin Friedman,Dave Wagner,Peter Kuper,Sabrina Jones,Hershl Hartman,Sara I. Rosenbaum,David Lasky,Dan  Archer,Peter Gullerud,Gary Dumm,Spain Rodriguez,Neil Kleid,Joe Zabel,Sam Marlow,Ellis Rosen,Neal Gabler
Yiddish is everywhere. We hear words like ,nosh,, ,schlep,, and ,schmutz ,all the time, but how did these words come to pepper American English? In ,Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land,, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the influence of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New Yorkâ€™s Lower East Side. This comics anthology contains original stories by notable writers and artists such as Barry Deutsch, Peter Kuper, Spain Rodriguez, and Sharon Rudahl. Through illustrations, comics art, and a full-length play, four major themes are explored: culture, performance, assimilation, and the revival of the language. The last fully realized work by Harvey Pekar, this book is a thoughtful compilation that reveals the far-reaching influences of Yiddish.,Praise for ,Yiddishkeit:, â€œThe book is about what Neal Gabler in his introduction labels â€˜Jewish sensibility.â€™ It pervades this volume, which he acknowledges is messy; he writes: â€˜You really can't define Yiddishkeit neatly in words or pictures. You sort of have to feel it by wading into it.â€™ The book does this with gusto.â€ â€”,New York Times , â€œ,Yiddishkeit, is as colorful, bawdy, and charming as the culture it seeks to represent.â€ â€”,Print, magazine, â€œevery bit of it brimming with the charm and flavor of its subject and seamlessly meshing with the text to create a genuinely compelling, scholarly comics experienceâ€ ,â€”,Publishers Weekly,â€œ,Yiddishkeit, is a book that truly informs about Jewish culture and, in the process, challenges readers to pick apart their own vocabulary.â€ â€”,Chicago Tribune, â€œa postvernacular tour de forceâ€ â€”,The Forward, â€œA fascinating and enlightening effort that takes full use of the graphic storytelling medium in an insightful and revelatory way.â€ ,â€”,The Miami Herald, â€œWith a loving eye Pekar and Buhle extract moments and personalities from Yiddish history.â€ â€”,Hadassah, ,â€œgorgeous comix-style portraits of Yiddish writersâ€,Â â€“â€“,Tablet,Â ,â€œYiddishkeit has managed to survive, if just barely, not because there are individuals dedicated to its survival, though there are, but because Yiddishkeit is an essential part of both the Jewish and the human experience.â€Â ,â€”Neal Gabler, author of ,An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood,, from his introduction
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Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land