Whitechapel Noise by Vivi Lachs

Author:Vivi Lachs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Ikh tsebrekh dir a beyn

I’ll break your bones

hak oys dayne tseyn

Smash your teeth

makh fun dir a bild in a freym

And make you into a framed picture40

Yet he is ineffective, made to look like a child having a tantrum, and as such does not threaten any danger, other than his own sense of manhood. Both these songs use the theme of domestic violence to infantilize the husbands and create antiheroes.41 Rather than make serious points, they show the emasculation of an immigrant man struggling to retain his sense of being the head of the household. Songs dealing with domestic violence within marriage open a space for naming bad behavior within the Yiddish-speaking community. They question the roles of men and women while offering a cathartic release for marriage tensions. These songs are edgy, even dangerous, and are a place to air dirty linen—not in the English public sphere, but in a semi-private immigrant space.

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