A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Saul Noam Zaritt bilingual didn’t feel the ancient teachings

didn’t feel the ancient teachings of the Talmud were relevant to modern life

offers the story of his life

“What is really impressive about this work is Brettschneider’s integration of personal anecdote with philosophical insight

he describes the German invasion of Šiauliai

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture by Saul Noam Zaritt bilingual didn’t feel the ancient teachingsA Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Saul Noam Zaritt calls for a shift in vocabulary, from Yiddish to taytsh, in order to promote reading strategies that account for the ways texts named as Jewish move between languages and cultures. Yiddish, a moniker that became dominant only in the early twentieth century, means Jewish and thus marks the language with a single