Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture - 1918-1930

Klappentext This book explores the ways in which Jews were part of! not apart from! both the Soviet system and Jewish history. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which Jews were part of! not apart from! both the Soviet system and Jewish history. Soviet Jewish culture worked within contemporary Jewish national and cultural trends and simultaneously participated in the larger project of propagating the Soviet state and ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Soviet nationalities policies and the making of the Soviet Yiddish Intelligentsia; 2. Ideology and Jewish language politics: How Yiddish became the national language of Soviet Jewry; 3. Modernising Yiddish; 4. Who owns the means of cultural production? The Soviet Yiddish publishing industry of the 1920s; 5. Engineers of Jewish souls: Soviet Yiddish writers envisioning the Jewish past, present and future; 6. Becoming revolutionary: Izi Kharik and the question of aesthetics, politics and ideology; Afterword. How does the story end?; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Shneer, David (University of Denver) Shneer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521104647
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10464-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Russia, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Russia / General