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Explication de texte: “Adventures of Menakhem-Mendl,” Sholem Aleichem in Moscow, Oxford, and Toronto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Anna Shternshis
Anna Shternshis*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Abstract

How does one teach a nineteenth-century Yiddish novel to twenty-first-century Canadian undergraduates? Can Jewish literature be of interest to nonheritage learners? The piece analyzes strategies of teaching of Letters of Menakhem Mendl written by the Ukrainian Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem at the end of the nineteenth century. The trajectory of teaching the novel in the context of Jewish studies to the context of diaspora studies provides unexpected insight into the meaning of this text.

Keywords

Shalom RabinovitzSholem AleichemThe Adventures of Menakhem MendlYiddish literaturediaspora studies
Type
Explication de texte
Information
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Jewish Studies and Postcolonialism , January 2016 , pp. 135 - 141
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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