Yivo and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture - Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation

This book is the first history of YIVO, an important center for Jewish culture and politics in the early twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'Language raised to the level of a political factor': Yiddish scholarship; 2. 'The idea of the institute is already ripe': the founding and first stages of YIVO, 1924-5; 3. 'From the folk, for the folk, with the folk': academic work, 1925-32; 4. 'The capital of Yiddishland': the geography of Jewish culture, 1925-33; 5. 'To forge intellectual weapons for our people!': scholarship in times of crisis, 1931-9; Epilogue: from Vilna to New York; Conclusion.

About the author

Cecile Esther Kuznitz is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Jewish Studies at Bard College, New York. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, California. Her articles have been published in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (2008), The Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007), The Worlds of S. An-sky (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (2002) and Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now (1998). She previously taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC and has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

Using documents believed destroyed by Hitler and Stalin, this book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded after World War I, YIVO became the apex of secular Yiddish culture and fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti-Semitism.

Product details

• Authors: KUZNIT CECILE ESTHE, Cecile Esther Kuznitz, Professor Cecile Esther (Bard College Kuznitz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781316634837
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63483-7
• No. of pages: 323
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; New York, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Library and information services, History and Archaeology, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Academic & specialist libraries