Author: Gennady Estraikh

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in...

There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned,...

For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an "ugly jargon"...

This book explores the rich treasury of Sholem Aleichem translations, focusing primarily on the European context. It suggests that the many-faceted...

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which...

The book is based on the papers presented at the Mendel Friedman Yiddish conference held at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, in August 201...

Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidz...

This is the first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reformsfrom the state of the lan...

This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union...

This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union...

This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and...

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, ...

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, ...

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