Yiddish and the Left : papers on the third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish /: papers on the third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov.
• Editors: Ėstraĭkh, G (Gennadiĭ); Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-
• Other Names: University of Oxford., European Humanities Research Centre.; Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, 3rd
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 439.1; Yiddish language -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Jews -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses; Socialism and Judaism -- Congresses; Communism and Judaism -- Congresses; Communism and Judaism; Jews -- Politics and government; Socialism and Judaism; Sociolinguistics; Yiddish language -- Political aspects; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other); Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351198219; 1351198211
• Related ISBNs: 9781900755481
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 12, 2017).
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