The rise of modern Yiddish culture
By: David E. Fishman.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Yiddish language -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century; Yiddish language -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Yiddish language -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern; Yiddish language -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern; Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life; Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government; Yiddishists -- Europe, Eastern
Description: "The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture, and examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival in the diaspora."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview; title: The politics of Yiddish; title: Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905; title: The Bund's contribution; title: Reinventing community; title: New trends in interwar Yiddish culture; title: The Judaism of secular Yiddishists; title: Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary; title: Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO; title: Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.