[PDF] The Yivo Encyclopedia Of Jews In Eastern Europe Yivo Institute For Jewish Research 1 Abel Migr eBook

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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This unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries encompass a vast range of topics, including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements, and important figures. The two-volume set also features more than 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. With original and up-to-date contributions from an international team of 450 distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Ural Mountains, from which more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920. Even today the majority of Jewish immigrants to North America arrive from Eastern Europe. Engaging, wide-ranging, and authoritative, this work is a rich and essential reference for readers with interests in Jewish studies and Eastern European history and culture. Published in cooperation with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Author : Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316634837

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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.

Author : Hirsz Abramowicz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814327845

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First published in a Yiddish edition in 1958, Profiles of a Lost World is a source of information about Eastern Europe before World War II as well as an touchstone for understanding a rich and complex cultural environment. Hirsz Abramowicz (1881-1960), a prominent Jewish educator, writer and cultural activist, knew that world and wrote about it, and his writings provide an eyewitness account of Jewish life during the first half of the twentieth century. Abramowicz was a witness to war, revolution and major cultural transformations in the Jewish world. His essays, written and originally published in Yiddish between 1920 and 1955, document the local history of Lithuanian Jewry in rural and small-town settings, and in the city of Vilna-the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"-which was a major center of East European Jewish intellectual and cultural life. They shed light on the daily life of Jews and the flourishing of modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century and offer a personal perspective on the rise of Jewish radical politics. The collection incorporates local history of Lithuanian Jewry, shtetl folklore, observations on rural occupations, Jewish education, and life under German occupation during World War I. It also includes a series of profiles of leading social and intellectual Jewish personalities of the author's day, from traditional scholars to revolutionaries. Together the selections provide a blend of social and personal history and a window on a lost world.

Author : Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Publisher :
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Europe, Eastern
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"This unprecedented reference work systematically represents the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their first settlement in the region to the present day. More than 1,800 alphabetical entries encompass a vast range of topics, including religion, folklore, politics, art, music, theater, language and literature, places, organizations, intellectual movements, and important figures. The two-volume set also features more than 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps. With original and up-to-date contributions from an international team of 450 distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia covers the region between Germany and the Ural Mountains, from which more than 2.5 million Jews emigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920. Even today the majority of Jewish immigrants to North America arrive from Eastern Europe. Engaging, wide-ranging, and authoritative, this work is a rich and essential reference for readers with interests in Jewish studies and Eastern European history and culture."--Publisher's website.

Author : Brendan McGeever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107195993

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The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
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The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.

Author : Zachary M. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780789022806

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Rediscover the history that the Soviets tried to erase! This important book addresses topics that may be unfamiliar even to specialists in Slavic or Jewish Studies. You'll find essays, bibliographies, and research studies illustrating the state of Jewish-related publishing ventures in Eastern Europe (especially Poland) and the former Soviet Union in the post-WWII era. Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm: Repositories, Collections, Projects, Publications also documents the efforts of Judaic scholars, librarians, and genealogists to provide access to archival collections in those countries. From the Editor: Throughout the Cold War--i.e., during the aftermath of the Nazis' attempt to exterminate all Jews who fell under their rule during World War II--public discussion of Jews and Judaism was virtually taboo within the Soviet Union proper, and permitted only under stringent controls in the rest of Eastern Europe. Local, regional, and geopolitics all played their parts in turning the "Jewish question" into one of the most conspicuous "blank spots" of an entire era. Until the second half of the 1980s, specialists in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were deprived of the most fundamental research tools--access to Judaica library and archival collections, and the opportunity to study the languages of Jewish scholarship: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish. Since then, they and their Western and Israeli counterparts have made an impressive start on filling in the blank spots, as a perusal of this book reveals, but much work remains to be done. Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm will familiarize you with: the Jewish Archival Survey--a remarkable cooperative venture of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Russian State University for the Humanities--which searches for records of the Russian-Jewish past in former Soviet repositories the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts' ongoing efforts to acquire microfilms of Hebrew manuscripts in Eastern European and former Soviet repositories Jewish book publishing in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic republics after 1990 the collecting activities of the library of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research over a ten-year period Jewish periodicals in the Ukraine--the largest region in the Tsarist Empire to which Jews were restricted until 1917 bibliographical projects in Polish-Jewish studies attempts to document the genealogical records of Eastern European Jews--and the outcomes of those attempts and more! In addition, you'll find three extensive bibliographies, each of which reflects rich and varied facets of the Slavic-Jewish encounter. These are: Shimon Iakerson's listing of 38 Hebrew incunabula (books printed before the year 1501) in the Asiatic Museum of St. Petersburg Vladimir Karasik's checklist of 311 Jewish periodicals published in the Ukraine from 1860 to the present--their schematic breakdown into five different periods represents the bibliographer's reflections on the lives and fates of Jews in the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet Ukraine Nikolai Borodulin's classified bibliography of several hundred Jewish books and periodicals (in a variety of languages) from the post-Soviet republics Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm is a one-of-a-kind book that no one interested in the hidden archival records of this century--and this historically significant part of the world--should be without.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300144093

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This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers, historians, and scientists—in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert."Dr. Weinreich's main thesis is that ‘German scholarship provided the ideas and techniques that led to and justified unparalleled slaughter.’. . . In its implications and honest presentation of the facts [this book] constitutes the best guide to the nature of Nazi terror that I have read so far."—Hannah Arendt, Commentary"Mr. Weinreich's book, by the wealth of its material and by its intelligent approach, offers the reader—in addition to a thorough treatment of the Jewish aspect—many opportunities to think about the role of scholarship in a totalitarian society."—Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review"Building, in the immediate aftermath of the war, on a formidable bibliography of books, pamphlets, and articles, Weinreich provides erudite evidence of the scale and ramifications of Nazi support in German intellectual life."—Martin Gilbert, from the introduction.