| Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew--the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition--and Yiddish--the East European Jewish vernacular--were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways? Naomi Brenner is assistant professor of Hebrew and Israeli culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. |