Czernowitz at 100
Subtitle: the first Yiddish language conference in historical perspective
By: edited by Kalman Weiser and Joshua A. Fogel.
Contributors: Fogel, Joshua A., 1950-; Weiser, Keith Ian, 1973-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng; yid
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780739140697; 9780739140710
Subjects: Yiddish philology -- Congresses; Jews -- Ukraine -- Chernivt︠s︡i -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Yiddish language -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern; Yiddish language -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Czernowitz at one hundred
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Czernowitz conference: contexts, ironies, and the verdict of Jewish history / Ezra Mendelson; title: A tale of two photographs: Nathan Birnbaum, the election of 1907 and the 1908 Yiddish language conference / Jess Olson; title: Peretz's commitment to Yiddish in Czernowitz: a national caprice? / Marie Schumacher-Brunhes; title: Mother tongue, Mame-loshn, and Kulturshprakh: the tension between populism and elitism in the language ideology of Noah Prylucki / Kalman Weiser; title: Y.L. Peretz and the politics of Yiddish / Marc Caplan; title: Reclaiming Czernowitz in Aharon Appelfeld's Flowers of darkness / Philip Hollander; title: Dem Oyle regls tokhter: the poetic pilgrimage of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman / Leye Lipsky; title: The painter as ethnographer: Maurycy Minkowski and the European Yiddish intelligentsia before World War I / Zachary Baker; title: The success of the Czernowitz Yiddish conference: setting the agenda for Yiddish language planning in the twentieth century / Rakhmiel Peltz; title: From Czernowitz to Paris: the International Yiddish culture congress of 1937 / Matthew Hoffman; title: Yiddishism in Canadian garb / Rebecca Margolis; title: The Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Archives, Toronto / David Birnbaum; title: Mates Mieses's defense of the Yiddish language / Mordkhe Schaechter.