Research Catalog

Title

Under the red banner : Yiddish culture in the communist countries in the postwar era / edited by Elvira Grözinger and Magdalena Ruta.

Publication

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grözinger, Elvira, 1947-
• Ruta, Magdalena.

Description

268 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Jüdische Kultur, 1431-6757 ; Bd. 20

Uniform Title

Jüdische Kultur ; Bd. 20.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jews > Communist countries > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Yiddish literature > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses
• Yiddish literature > Communist countries > History and criticism > Congresses
• Communism and culture > Europe, Eastern > Congresses
• Communism and culture
• Intellectual life
• Jews > Intellectual life
• Yiddish literature
• Jiddisch
• Juden
• Kultur
• Literatur
• Yiddish literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Yiddish literature > Criticism and interpretation > Communist countries
• Communism and culture > Europe, Eastern
• Judar > intellektuellt liv > historia > Östeuropa > 1945- > konferenser
• Litteratur på jiddisch > historia > 1945- > konferenser
• Communist countries > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Communist countries
• Eastern Europe
• Ostblock
• Osteuropa
• Sozialistische Staaten
• Communist countries > Intellectual life
• Jiddisch
• Krakau <2006>

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers from an international conference held Nov. 6-8, 2006 at Jagiellonian University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Chiefly in English, with some also in Yiddish.

Contents

Yiddish as a political tool -- Nusakh Poyln -- Communists in the "Jewish Sector" in Poland: Identity, Ethos and Institutional Power Structure / Jaff Schatz -- Jews in Polish Communist Policy (1949-1953) / Bozena Szaynok -- Jewish Communists after the Holocaust and the Languages of Polish Jewry / August Grabski and Martyna Rusiniak -- Yiddish Theatre and the Fine Arts in Romania and Poland -- Stalinist Policy and Jewish Culture: The Jewish State Theatre of Bucharest / Elvira Grozinger -- Polish Press and the Yiddish Theater in Poland (1947-1956) -- Screens of a Dialogue / Miroslawa M. Bulat -- Pt. 1. Excerpts from the World of Appearances -- Jewish Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts / Di yidishe gezelshaft tsu farshpreytn kunst: An Attempt at the Continuation of Jewish Artistic Life in Postwar Poland, 1946-1949 / Renata Piatkowska -- The Dissemination of Yiddish Culture in Poland -- Yiddish Literature in Polish Publications in the Period of the People's Republic of Poland (PRL) / Eugenia Prokop-Janiec -- The Last Yiddish Books Printed in Poland. Outline of the Activities of Yidish Book Publishing House / Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov -- The Newspaper Folks-shtime (People's Voice), 1948-1968: a Personal Account / Moshe Shklar -- Nasz Glos (Our Voice), 1957-1968, the Polish Language Supplement to the Folks-Shtime (People's Voice) / Joseph Sobelman -- Yiddish Literature in Poland and in the USSR -- Motives for the Emigration of Yiddish Writers fromPoland (1945-1948) / Nathan Cohen -- The Principal Motifs in Yiddish Literature in Poland (1945-1949): Preliminary Remarks / Magdalena Ruta -- The image of Postwar Poland in the Works of Leyb Olitski / Magdalena Sitarz -- God of Iron: the Private Literary Mythology of the Yiddish Writer Alexander Lizen / Thomas Soxberger -- Yiddish Culture in the USSR and Lithuania -- The Warsaw Outlets for Soviet Yiddish Writers / Gennady Estraikh -- The Russian-Yiddish Dictionary of 1984 and the Problems of the Maintenance of Soviet Yiddish after the Second World War / Wolf Moskovich -- The Short-Lived Revival of Yiddish Culture in Postwar Soviet Lithuania (1953-1971) or the Story of an Odd Communist / Dov Levin.

ISBN

• 9783447058087
• 3447058080

LCCN

• 2009383392
• 9783447058087

OCLC

• ocn276334542
• 276334542
• SCSB-14418983

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library