Yiddish in the Cold War

Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, Poland, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. The sacrificial role of the Red Army, and the Soviet Union as a whole, reinforced the Left movement in the post-Holocaust Jewish world.

List of contents

1. Pain and Consolation 2. Soviet Jewish Life in the 1950s 3. Cultural Diplomacy 4. Imagining Soviet Jews 5. A Brave Face on a Sorry Business

About the author

Gennady Estraikh

Summary

This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, France and Israel. It discusses the intellectual environments of the Moscow literary journal Sovetish Heymland.

Product details

• Authors: Gennady Estraikh, Estraikh Gennady
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2008
• EAN: 9781906540050
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-05-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Far-left political ideologies and movements, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Yiddish, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General