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Yiddish and the Left : [papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish] / edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov.

Title
Yiddish and the Left : [papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish] / edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov.
Author
Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish (3rd : 2000 : Oxford, England)
Publication
Oxford : European Humanities Research Centre, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Krutikov, Mikhail
  • Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-
  • Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish (3rd : 2000 : University of Oxford)
  • University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre.
  • Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ)
Description
viii, 325 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in Yiddish ; 3
Uniform Title
Studies in Yiddish ; 3.
Subject
  • Communism and Judaism > Congresses
  • Jews > Politics and government > 20th century > Congresses
  • Socialism and Judaism > Congresses
  • Sociolinguistics > Congresses
  • Yiddish language > Political aspects > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Conference held in Oxford in July 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The Question of Human Rights in American Yiddish Journalism: The Examples of Di tsukunft / Steven Cassedy -- 2. Socialism with a Jewish Face: The Origins of the Yiddish-Speaking Communist Movement in the United States, 1907-1923 / Tony Michels -- 3. Abraham Cahan's Travels in Jewish Homelands: Palestine in 1925 and the Soviet Union in 1927 / Daniel Soyer -- 4. Diaspora, Ethnicity and Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Birobidzhan Project / Henry Srebrnik -- 5. The Left Poalei Zion in Inter-War Poland / Samuel D. Kassow -- 6. The History of 'The Truth': Soviet Jewish Activists and the Moscow Yiddish Daily Newspaper / David Shneer -- 7. Metamorphoses of Morgn-frayhayt / Gennady Estraikh -- 8. Yiddish in Poland after 1945 / Eleonora Bergman -- 9. The Cult of Self-Sacrifice in Yiddish Anarchism and Saul Yanovsky's The First Years of Jewish Libertarian Socialism / Karen Rosenberg -- 10. Abraham Golomb's Integrated Jewishness / Thomas Soxberger -- 11. Inscribing the Yiddish Past: Inter-War Explorations of Old Yiddish Texts / Barry Trachtenberg -- 12. Soviet Literary Theory in the Search for a Yiddish Canon: The Case of Moshe Litvakov / Mikhail Krutikov -- 13. From Exile to Exile: Bergelson's Berlin Years / Dafna Clifford -- 14. Chaim Sloves and the Soviet Union: An Essay on the Jewish People in one of its Peregrinations / Annette Aronowicz -- 15. The Status of Yiddish in Jewish Educational Systems in Argentina and Mexico / Efraim Zadoff -- 16. The Image of Apartheid in South African Yiddish Prose Writing / Joseph Sherman.
ISBN
1900755483
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library