Research Catalog

Title

• השבה והחמצה : תום התקופה האירופית של ייווא / בלהה שילה.
• Hashavah ṿe-haḥmatsah : tom ha-teḳufah ha-Eropit shel Yiṿo / Bilhah Shiloh.

Author

• שילה, בלהה
• Shilo, Bilha

Publication

• ירושלים : הוצאת ספרים ע"ש י"ל מאגנס, האוניברסיטה העברית, [תשפ"ב = 2022]
• Yerushalayim : Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻal sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit, [782 = 2022]
• ©2022

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Description

132 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Describes the extraordinary success of the restitution of the collections of YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut) - the prestigious research institution of the Yiddish language and culture. A Drama in Acts traces the fragments of post-Second World War YIVO (which meanwhile moved from Vilna to New York): its successes in restoring its cultural property in the West and in the American occupied zone, and its bitter failure in the Soviet-occupied territory in the East. The book explores, through the question of cultural property ownership, a range of historical issues: the development of modern Jewish culture in Eastern Europe, the advance of Yiddish as a modern literary language, the history of Jewish culture under communist regimes, and its extermination under Nazi rule. Other issues addressed are the demise of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe following the division of Europe and the Cold War, and lastly--the conflict between Israel and the Diaspora over the inheritance of Jewish European culture. (Adapted from publisher's website.)

Series Statement

• חפץ
• Ḥefets

Uniform Title

• חפץ - מסות על היסטוריה יהודית חומרית
• Ḥefets - masot ʻal hisṭoryah yehudit ḥomrit

Alternative Title

Drama in acts : the restitution of the Vilna YIVO collections

Subject

• Yivo Institute for Jewish Research > History
• Offenbach Archival Depot > History
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) > History
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
• Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
• 1900-1999
• World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > Vilnius
• World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Europe
• Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > Vilnius
• Cultural property > Repatriation
• Jewish property > Europe > History > 20th century
• Jews > Vilnius > Intellectual life
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Vilnius
• Jewish libraries > Vilnius > History
• Jewish libraries > New York > History
• Yiddish imprints > Collectors and collecting > Europe, Eastern
• Confiscations
• Cultural property > Destruction and pillage
• Destruction and pillage
• Jewish libraries
• Jewish property
• Jews > Intellectual life
• Eastern Europe
• Europe
• Lithuania > Vilnius
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Title from added title page: A drama in acts: The restitution of the Vilna YIVO collection.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [123]-132)

ISBN

• 9789657790618
• 9657790611

LCCN

004502910478

OCLC

• on1309340362
• 1309340362
• SCSB-14226831

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries