Three Cities of Yiddish - St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow at the crucial historical moment of the collapse of the Russian Empire, this volume examines the variety of Yiddish publishing, educational, literary, academic, and theatrical activities in the former imperial metropolises from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth century, and explores the representations of those cities in Yiddish literature.
Gennady Estraikh is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University. Mikhail Krutikov is Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Summary

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities.

Product details

• Authors: Gennady Estraikh, Estraikh Gennady, Mikhail Krutikov, Mikhail Estraikh Krutikov, Krutikov Mikhail, Mikhail Mikhail Krutikov
• Assisted by: Gennady Estraikh (Editor), Mikhail Krutikov (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781910887073
• ISBN: 978-1-910887-07-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Vaccine Research and Developments; Vaccine Research and Developme; Vaccine Research and Developments; Studies in Yiddish
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Russia, Poland, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Yiddish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, Yiddish; Asch; Petersburg; Warsaw; Moscow