#& developing the idea of cosmopolitan-imperial idiom that comes from obligate multilingualism & now it's

[chicago-geniza]

half of my so-called research is just [slaps the roof of interwar poland] this baby can fit so much Gender inside it

#the other half is about complicating & deepening understanding of jewish assimilation & identity #before the war & domestic + international literary networks between polish-lang russian-lang yiddish-lang & hebrew-lang writers #also german-lang once I learn German lol #& developing the idea of cosmopolitan-imperial idiom that comes from obligate multilingualism & now it's #related to class #also the idea of linguistic purity re: polish & russian vis-a-vis class & assimilation when it came 2 jews & how this was a #site of tension / racism / classism / codified humor #like how this woman who grew up in a wealthy assimilated family listened to a show on wesola lwowska fala where #comedians made fun of the jewish accent or how in andrzej marek's polish dybbuk--when he based his translation on mickiewicz's language-- #he had to train his polish actors not to use zydlaczenie on stage #or how stefania zahorska ends her dwie joasie review with a scathing remark about nobody speaking '*real* polish'