Juxtapose and contrast the two “ravelogue” books, one by Sam Apple and the other by Robert Eisenberg. Discuss them in light of Shandler’s perception of postvernacular “Yddish” culture (Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture) and Dovid Katz’s vision (conception) of a long-duration Ashkenazi cultural (and linguistic) creativity as it is being espoused in his book Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish.
