ISBN:
9780822942726
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
X, 190 S.
,
8ʻ
Year of publication:
2005
DDC:
439/.10947/09034
Abstract:
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture. David Fishman examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival in the diaspora. Fishman considers the roots of modern Yiddish culture in social and political conditions in Imperial Tsarist and inter-war Poland, and its relationship to Zionism and Bundism. In so doing, Fishman argues that Yiddish culture enveloped all socioeconomic classes, not just the proletarian base, and considers the emergence, at the turn of the century, of a pro-Yiddish intelligentsia and a Yiddishist movement.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2005013314-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2005013314-d.html
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