Cecile Esther Kuznitz

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first history of YIVO, an important center for Jewish culture and politics in the early twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014206
• ISBN-10: 1107014204
• Artikelnr.: 40698941

Autorenporträt

Cecile Esther Kuznitz is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Jewish Studies at Bard College, New York. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, California. Her articles have been published in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (2008), The Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007), The Worlds of S. An-sky (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (2002) and Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now (1998). She previously taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC and has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Language raised to the level of a political factor': Yiddish scholarship
2. 'The idea of the institute is already ripe': the founding and first stages of YIVO, 1924-5
3. 'From the folk, for the folk, with the folk': academic work, 1925-32
4. 'The capital of Yiddishland': the geography of Jewish culture, 1925-33
5. 'To forge intellectual weapons for our people!': scholarship in times of crisis, 1931-9
Epilogue: from Vilna to New York
Conclusion.