At Heym in the Hoyf: Mimi Pinzón's Argentine Yiddish World.
Buenos Aires had already passed its brief heyday as a Yiddish publishing center when the journalist, Yiddishist, communist, literary scholar, and teacher Mimi Pinzón (1910-1975) published her autobiographical novel, Der hoyf on fentster (The Courtyard without Windows; 1965 ). The novel tells an immi...
| Publicado en: | Prooftexts Vol. 36; no. 1/2; pp. 167 - 190 |
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Indiana University Press
2017
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