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Annette Aronowicz
anti-apartheid activism
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Barry Trachtenberg
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Chaim Zhitlovsky
communist press history
Dafna Clifford
Daniel Soyer
David Shneer
Der Emes
Der Nister
Di Tsukunft
diaspora identity politics
Efraim Zadoff
Eleonora Bergman
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Fun Der
Henry Srebrnik
Jewish Communists
Jewish educational systems
Jewish Labour Movement
Jewish socialist movements
Joseph Sherman
Karen Rosenberg
literary canon formation
Mendele Moykher Sforim
Mikhail Krutikov
Perets Markish
Samuel D. Kassow
Secular Yiddish Culture
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh
Sovetish Heymland
Soviet Yiddish
Soviet Yiddish Writers
Steven Cassedy
Thomas Soxberger
Tony Michels
Yiddish Culture
Yiddish Language
Yiddish left-wing intellectual history
Yiddish Literature
Yiddish Philology
Yiddish Scholars
Yiddish Texts
Yiddish Writers
Yidishe Kultur
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755481
- Weight: 110g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an "ugly jargon" despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced as genuine folk idiom by Jewish adherents of socialism and communism worldwide. Following the Holocaust, Yiddish was the primary language of education, culture and propaganda for millions of people on five continents. This volume examines the diversity of relationships between Yiddish and the Left, from the attitude of Yiddish writers to apartheid in South Africa to the vicissitudes of the Yiddish communist press in the Soviet Union and the USA.
Gennady Estraikh is Lecturer in Yiddish Linguistics at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and SOAS, London.
