Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Yiddish Studies: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Mandate -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Writing on the Edge -- Prelude to "Writing on the Edge" -- Der Nister's Symbolist Stories: Adventures in Yiddish Storytelling and Their Consequences -- Writing on the Verge of Catastrophe: David Vogel's Last Work of Prose -- In the Pot, Half-Melted: Sacco-Vanzett i Poems and Yiddish American Identity -- Yiddish and the City -- Prelude to "Yiddish and the City" -- The Lower East Side Meets Greenwich Village: Immigrant Jews, Yiddish, and the New York Intellectual Scene -- Propaganda or Fighting the Myth of Pakhdones? Naye Prese, the Popular Front, and the Spanish Civil War -- The Other Polonia: Yiddish Immigrant Writers in Buenos Aires and New York Respond to the New Polish State -- Choosing Yiddish in the Classroom: Montreal's National Secular Schools, 1910-1950 -- Yiddish Goes Pop -- Prelude to "Yiddish Goes Pop" -- Isaac Goldberg and the Idea of Obscene Yiddish -- The Idealized Mother and Her Discontents: Performing Maternity in Yiddish Film Melodrama -- Russian Militia Singing in Yiddish: Jewish Nostalgia in Soviet and Post-Soviet Popular Culture -- Yiddish Comes to America -- Prelude to "Yiddish Comes to America" -- My Yidishe Murder: The 1876 Case of Pesach Rubenstein, Hasidic Slasher -- Race, Culture, and the Creation of Yiddish Social Science: Max Weinreich's Trip to Tuskegee, 1932 -- Coming to America: Max Weinreich and the Emergence of YIVO's American Center -- Yiddish Encounters Hebrew -- Prelude to "Yiddish Encounters Hebrew" -- A Mistress, a Nanny, or a Maidservant: Discourse on Yiddish in Fin de Siècle Hebrew Newspapers in Eastern Europe.

Choosing Yiddish in Israel: Yung Yisroel between Home and Exile, the Center and the Margins -- Hebrew Remembers Yiddish: Avot Yeshurun's Poetics of Translation -- Hear and Now -- Prelude to "Hear and Now" -- Echoes of Yiddish in the Speech of Twenty-First-Century American Jews -- "Hold on Tightly to Tradition": Generational Diff erences in Yiddish Song Repertoires among Contemporary Hasidic Women -- The SoCalled Past: Sampling Yiddish in Hip-Hop -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.