Making Jews Modern
Subtitle: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (The Modern Jewish Experience)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253343048
Subjects: Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; History: World; Journalism; Jewish studies; Media studies; Ottoman Empire; Jewish - General; Balkan Peninsula; Civilization; History; Jews; Ladino newspapers; Press coverage; Russia; Yiddish newspapers
First sentence: In 1903, Morris Shaten was a teenager living in Kutno, a small town with a sizable Jewish population located just north of Lodz, in the Polish region of Russian Pale of Settlement.