Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,2-3 (2022) 235-248
Keywords:
Mark, Bernard,
;
Mark, Bernard,
;
Communism and Zionism Historiography
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Marxian historiography
;
Jews Identity 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Ber Mark, the longstanding director of ŻIH (1949–1966), is generally considered a regime historian who adhered to the Communist Party line in his histories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, most of which were significantly distorted by Communist bias. In 1957, however, he published a book dealing with premodern Jewish history. Di geshikhte fun yidn in poyln (bizn sof fun XV y[or]h[undert]) (The History of Jews in Poland [until the End of the Fifteenth Century]) represents an attempt by Mark to reconcile an orthodox Marxist interpretation of Jewish history with a Zionist Marxist construction, with its nod to Jewish nationalism. In this book, then, Mark had ultimately reached a crossroads in his writing of Jewish history. With its incorporation of a nationalist understanding of Jewish history in coexistence with a Communist one, Di geshikhte fun yidn in poyln marks the end of pure Marxist historiography in Yiddish.
DOI:
10.1080/13501674.2023.2213651
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