Background
Grossman, Jeffrey A. was born on January 19, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of David W. and Marilyn Klein Grossman.
(This book explores the uses of Yiddish language in German...)
This book explores the uses of Yiddish language in German literary and cultural texts from the onset of Jewish civil emancipation in the Germanies in 1781 until the late 19th century. Showing the various functions Yiddish assumed at this time, the study crosses traditional boundaries between literary and non-literary texts. It focuses on responses to Yiddish in genres of literature ranging from drama to language handbooks, from cultural criticism to the realist novel in order to address broader issues of literary representation and Jewish-German relations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Professor Grossman shows how the emergence of attitudes toward Jews and Yiddish is directly related to linguistic theories and cultural ideologies that bear a complex relationship to the changing social and political institutions of the time. Amidst the rise of national ideologies and modern anti-Semitism, the increasing consolidation of institutions, and the drive to cultural homogeneity in the 18th- and 19th-century German context, Yiddish functioned as an anarchic element that, in the view of its opponents, "threatened" to dissolve German national culture. Grossman locates the response to Yiddish in the context of historical events (the Hep Hep Riots of 1819, the Revolution of 1848) and institutional changes (Jewish legal emancipation, the promotion of Bildung as an educational and cultural ideal). In its methodology and its focus, this study seeks to show how the conflicted responses to the Yiddish language point to the problems that connected and frequently divided Jews and Germans as they sought to re-invent themselves for a new and unsettling context.
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Grossman, Jeffrey A. was born on January 19, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of David W. and Marilyn Klein Grossman.
Bachelor, Tufts University, 1982. Master of Arts, Tufts University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1992.
Postdoctoral fellow Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1992-1995, Center for Judaic Studies, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1995-1996. Assistant professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1996, member executive committee Jewish studies, 2000—2001.
(This book explores the uses of Yiddish language in German...)
Member Modern Language Association, German Studies Association, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.