Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

Author:   Gennady Estraikh ,  Mikhail Krutikov
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   3
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9781900755481


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 July 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gennady Estraikh ,  Mikhail Krutikov
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Legenda
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781900755481


ISBN 10:   1900755483
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 July 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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PART I: Politics 1 The Question of Human Rights in American Yiddish Journalism: The Example of Ditsukunft 2 Socialism with a Jewish Face: The Origins of the Yiddish-Speaking Communist Movement in the United States, 1907-1923, 3 Abraham Cahan's Travels in Jewish Homelands: Palestine in 1925 and the Soviet Union in 1927 4 Diaspora, Ethnicity and Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Birobidzhan Project 5 The Left Poalei Zion in Inter-War Poland 6 The History of 'The Truth': Soviet Jewish Activists and the Moscow Yiddish Daily Newspaper 7 Metamorphoses of Morgn-frayhayt 8 Yiddish in Poland after 1945 PART II: Culture 9 The Cult of Self-Sacrifice in Yiddish Anarchism and Saul Yanovsky The First Years of Jewish Libertarian Socialism 10 Abraham Golombs 'Integrated Jewishness' 11 Inscribing the Yiddish Past: Inter-War Explorations of Old Yiddish Texts 12 Soviet Literary Theory in the Search for a Yiddish Canon: The Case of Moshe Litvakov 13 From Exile to Exile: Bergelson's Berlin Years 14 Chaim Sloves and the Soviet Union: An Essay on the Jewish People in one of its Peregrinations 15 The Status of Yiddish in Jewish Educational Systems in Argentina and Mexico 16 The Image of Apartheid in South African Yiddish Prose Writing

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The international roster of contributors covers an impressively broad range of topics... linked by a common thematic thread, the attempt of progressive Yiddish-language writers, intellectuals and activists to reconcile their competing allegiances to the Jewish poeple or religion and their leftist politics. The uniformly high quality of the collection and its breadth of topics and approaches makes it an important contribution to interdisciplinary Yiddish studies and to related fields of enquiry (foreign language and immigrant journalism, bilingual education, minority and exile literatures, African colonial literature, Soviet studies).--Elizabeth Loentz Modern Language Review (01/01/0001)


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Gennady Estraikh is Lecturer in Yiddish Linguistics at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and SOAS, London.

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