Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Revolution in TypeCondition: NewSubtitle: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish PressISBN-10: 147981766XEAN: 9781479817665ISBN: 9781479817665Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/14/2023Description: 73rd National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapersBetween the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Yiddish-speaking immigrants came to view newspapers as indispensable parts of their daily lives. For many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, acclimating to America became inextricably intertwined with becoming a devoted reader of the Yiddish periodical press, as the newspapers and their staffs became a fusion of friends, religious and political authorities, tour guides, matchmakers, and social welfare agencies.In A Revolution in Type, Ayelet Brinn argues that women were central to the emergence of the Yiddish press as a powerful, influential force in American Jewish culture. Through rhetorical debates about women readers and writers, the producers of the Yiddish press explored how to transform their newspapers to reach a large, diverse audience. The seemingly peripheral status of women’s columns and other newspaper features supposedly aimed at a female audience—but in reality, read with great interest by male and female readers alike—meant that editors and publishers often used these articles as testing grounds for the types of content their newspapers should encompass. The book explores the discovery of previously unknown work by female writers in the Yiddish press, whose contributions most often appeared without attribution; it also examines the work of men who wrote under women’s names in order to break into the press. Brinn shows that instead of framing issues of gender as marginal, we must view them as central to understanding how the American Yiddish press developed into the influential, complex, and diverse publication field it eventually became.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Ayelet BrinnGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, History, Society & CultureItem Weight: 617gRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Revolution in Type
Title: A Revolution in Type
Subtitle: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press
ISBN-10: 147981766X
EAN: 9781479817665
ISBN: 9781479817665
Release Date: 11/14/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Revolution in Type : Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Sexuality & Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.8 Oz
Author: Ayelet Brinn
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
