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Before the Beginning: Specters of Monolingualism in Opatoshu and Brenner

Prooftexts, 2022-01, Vol.39 (2), p.208-233 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Before the Beginning: Specters of Monolingualism in Opatoshu and Brenner
  • Author: Herskovitz, Yaakov
  • Subjects: Anxiety ; Bilingualism ; Brenner, Yosef Hayyim ; Education ; Hebrew language ; Immigration ; Jewish literature ; Jewish schools ; Language instruction ; Linguistics ; Literary translation ; Monolingualism ; Novels ; Opatoshu, Yoysef ; Reading ; Transnationalism ; Writing ; Yiddish language ; Yosef Hayyim
  • Is Part Of: Prooftexts, 2022-01, Vol.39 (2), p.208-233
  • Description: This article presents a joint reading of two school novels, both written in the span of one year: the Yiddish raow/Hibru by Yoysef Opatoshu and the Hebrew novel Mehathalah (From the Beginning) by Yosef Hayyim Brenner. These two novels, when read together, offer a consideration of language education and monolingual trajectories in both New York and Tel Aviv, and of both Hebrew and Yiddish. The article charts connections between the two works that have never been discussed before, showing how both authors foreground an anxiety with the vernacular future of Jewish communities around the world, and how both novels, although very different in narrative and style, reflect a shared uneasiness about the viability of monolingual Jewish existence. In doing so, this article offers a transnational reading of these two novels, showing how in 1919 the world of Jewish literature was embroiled in similar questions of immigration and origins, as well as both the power and the shortcomings of language education.
  • Publisher: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0272-9601
    ISSN: 1086-3311
    EISSN: 1086-3311
    DOI: 10.2979/prooftexts.39.2.02
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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