Cecile Esther Kuznitz

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (eBook, PDF)

Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti-Semitism. From its headquarters in Vilna, Lithuania, YIVO tried to balance scholarly objectivity with its commitment to the Jewish masses. Using newly recovered documents that were believed destroyed by Hitler and Stalin, Cecile Esther Kuznitz tells for the first time the compelling story of how these scholars built a world-renowned institution despite dire poverty and anti-Semitism. She raises new questions about the relationship between Jewish cultural and political work, and analyzes how nationalism arises outside of state power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139698641
• Artikelnr.: 52918524

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.