Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact

In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?

Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an endpoint but rather a new phase ...