Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy
In this paper, based on five weeks of ethnographic field work in a Yiddish classroom in Poland, I describe how Yiddish language ideologies were realized and enacted within the classroom by language learners and teachers alike. This paper connects these language ideologies and classroom practices to...
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doaj-80f7e0148b1f425cab1f2c07b48697d52021-08-02T06:55:45ZengDalhousie University LibrariesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography2369-87212019-03-0191829810.15273/jue.v9i1.88868089Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish PedagogyAlex McGrath0State University of New York at GeneseoIn this paper, based on five weeks of ethnographic field work in a Yiddish classroom in Poland, I describe how Yiddish language ideologies were realized and enacted within the classroom by language learners and teachers alike. This paper connects these language ideologies and classroom practices to larger historical negotiations of the Jewish past occurring within contemporary Poland, negotiations that center around memory and space. I argue that Yiddish can be understood as an object in cultural flux, discursively framed by multiple intersecting and, at times, contradictory narratives. Focusing on Yiddish language classrooms in contemporary Poland in particular, I demonstrate how Yiddish is embedded in non-Jewish Polish narratives and historical negotiations, as well those of diaspora Jewry.https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/8886language ideologieslinguistic anthropologyJewish studiesYiddishPoland |
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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy |
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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy |
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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy |
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The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography |
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In this paper, based on five weeks of ethnographic field work in a Yiddish classroom in Poland, I describe how Yiddish language ideologies were realized and enacted within the classroom by language learners and teachers alike. This paper connects these language ideologies and classroom practices to larger historical negotiations of the Jewish past occurring within contemporary Poland, negotiations that center around memory and space. I argue that Yiddish can be understood as an object in cultural flux, discursively framed by multiple intersecting and, at times, contradictory narratives. Focusing on Yiddish language classrooms in contemporary Poland in particular, I demonstrate how Yiddish is embedded in non-Jewish Polish narratives and historical negotiations, as well those of diaspora Jewry. |
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language ideologies linguistic anthropology Jewish studies Yiddish Poland |
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