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My Mom Drank Ink: The “Little Negro” and the Performance of Race in Yente Telebende’s Stage Productions
The case study of Yente Telebende is merely one example of popular Yiddish culture — theater, pulp fiction, and newspapers — that strove for commercial success by appealing to the tastes of its audience, shaped by American culture’s vocabulary and images of Blackness.
Apr 21, 2023
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Af der shvel un in der fremd: A feuilleton on Yiddish, Race, and the American Literary Imagination