Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,2 (2005) 170-201
Keywords:
Cherikover, I. M.,
;
Efroykin, Israel
;
Kalmanovitch, Zelig,
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Golomb, A.
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Menes, Abram,
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אויפן שיידוועג (כתב עת)
;
Yiddish periodicals
;
Yiddish periodicals History
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Yiddish language Periodicals
Abstract:
Focuses on articles by four contributors to the last unpublished issue of the Paris-based Yiddish journal "Oyfn Shaydveg" in 1940 - Simon Dubnow, Zelig Hirsh Kalmanovitsh, Avrom Golomb, and Aharon Steinberg. These Jewish intellectuals reexamined their previous diaspora nationalist ideologies in reaction to the extrusion of Jews from politics and culture in Germany and East Central Europe. Dubnow and Steinberg believed that, despite their weakened status, Jews still had some chance of determining their fate; hence, they appealed for help to democratic countries. In contrast, Kalmanovitsh and Golomb embraced the segregation that Europe was imposing on the Jews. All four agreed that diaspora nationalism and Yiddishism had failed. Seeking refuge in ideology, they acknowledged the external failure of personal and national emancipation and internal failure due to assimilation.
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