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"A Marriage Made in Heaven is a history of how Hebrew and Yiddish came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. It is the first book-length exploration of the historical associations between Yiddish and Jewish women and Hebrew and Jewish men, tracing these associations back to the seventeenth century and the sexual segregation of reading audiences. Documenting the eventual rise of Yiddish "women's" literature, Seidman also examines this sexual-linguistic system as it shaped the work of two bilingual authors: Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, the "grandfather" of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and Dvora Baron, the first woman prose writer in modern Hebrew. She then analyzes the roles Yiddish "femininity" and Hebrew "masculinity" played in the Hebrew-Yiddish language wars, the divorce that ultimately ended the Hebrew-Yiddish "marriage.""--Jacket.

Jews --- Jewish women --- Bilingualism. --- Languages in contact. --- Yiddish language. --- Hebrew language. --- Bilingualism --- Languages in contact --- Yiddish language --- Hebrew language --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Languages. --- Books and reading. --- Languages --- Books and reading --- Mendele Mokher Sefarim, --- Baron, Devorah, --- Language. --- Women, Jewish --- Jewish language --- German Hebrew --- Hebreo-German language --- Jiddisch language --- Judaeo-German language (Yiddish) --- Judeo-German language (Yiddish) --- Baron, Deborah, --- Baron, Dvorah, --- Ahronovitz, Deborah, --- Baron, Dvora, --- Aharonovits, Devorah, --- בארון, דבורה --- בארון, דבורה, --- בארון, דבירה --- ברון, דבורה --- ברון, דבורה, --- Mendele Mocher Seforim, --- Mendélé Moher Sefarim, --- Seforim, Mendele Mocher, --- Sfarim, Mendale Mocher, --- Sforim, Mendele Mocher, --- Moĭkher-Sforim, Mendele, --- Sefarim, Mendele Mokher, --- Mendeli Mokher Sefarim, --- Mendale Mocher Sfarim, --- Mendele Moĭkher-Sforim, --- Mendele Moykher-Sforim, --- Moykher-Sforim, Mendele, --- Broyde, Shalom Jacob, --- Mendele Mokher Seforim, --- Mendeli Moykher Sforim, --- Mokher-Sefarim, Mendele, --- Mendele Mokher Sfarim, --- Mokher-Sfarim, Mendele, --- Mendele Mojcher Sforim, --- Abramovitsh, S. Y., --- Mendele the Book Peddler, --- Abramovich, S. M., --- Mendele Mokher Sforim, --- Méndele Moijer Sfórim, --- Méndele Mójer Sfórim, --- אבראמאוויץ, ש. --- אברמוביץ, שלום יעקב, 1836־1917 --- אברמוביץ, ש״י, --- מנדלה מוכר ספרים --- מנדלי --- מנדלי מוכר סופרים --- מנדלי מוכר ספרחם --- מנדלי מוכר ספרים, --- מנדלי מוכר־ספרים --- מנדלי מוכר־ספרים, --- מנדלי, מוכר ספרים, --- מעדלי מוכר ספרים --- מעדלי מוכר ספרים, --- מעדעלע מוכר ספרים --- מענגעלע מוכר ספרים --- מענדילי מוכר ספרים --- מענדנלע מויכער־ספארים, --- מענדעלי מוכר ספרים --- מענדעלי מוכר ספרים, --- מענדעלע --- מענדעלע מויכער-ספארים --- מענדעלע מוכר ספורים --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרים, --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרים. --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרימס, --- ש״י אברמוביץ, ש״י, --- Mocher Sforim, Mendele, --- Women --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Areal linguistics --- Language and languages --- Multilingualism --- Abramowich, Shalom Jacob,