Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0739140698 ISBN 13 : 9780739140697

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2010

Synopsis

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held at Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of scholars re-examining eastern European Jewish life, the successes and failures of the Yiddishist movement are examined. The contributors discuss how Yiddishism―a fascinating example of language-based nationalism―shaped the political and cultural landscape of territorially dispersed Jews across Eastern Europe and the world during the twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rakhmiel Peltz is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Director of Judaic Studies at Drexel University. His specialization is the social history of Yiddish language and culture. He holds two doctorates, one in Biological Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania and the second in Yiddish Studies and Linguistics from Columbia University, and has published extensively in both fields. His book, From Immigrant to Ethic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia (Stanford University Press, 1998), is the first book on spoken Yiddish in America and provides a fresh look at ethnic culture in the contemporary USA. He is now studying the private culture of the pre-World War II Jewish family in Eastern Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739140698
• ISBN 13: 9780739140697
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Éditeur: Fogel Joshua A., Weiser Keith
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible