I Am Your Dust

Gali Drucker Bar-Am is a scholar of modern Yiddish culture, studying its contribution to the formation of modern and post–World War II Jewish and Israeli (subjective and collective) identities. Her work closely interacts with wider studies of the modern experience, most notably studies of migration and exile cultures, of genocide and trauma, and of the emergence of modern ideologies and political movements and their influence on the collective ethos of place, space, tradition, and memory. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Yiddish in Israel: A Cultural History, 1948–1967
1. Tel Aviv After the Holocaust: A Yiddish Metropolis?
2. May the Place Comfort You: Memory, Space, and Consolidation of National Identity in the Yiddish Press
Part II: The Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948–1967
3. The Nostalgic Paradox of Yiddish Prose
4. Israeli Spaces in Yiddish Prose
Conclusion: The End of Yiddish Culture and the Invention of an Israeli-Jewish Identity
Appendix A: Biographical Details of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel
Appendix B: Global Centers of Yiddish Culture, 1948–1967
Notes
Bibliography
Index