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      Yiddish Literature Under Surveillance

      Gennady Estraikh

      This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under the Stalinist rule. It is written as a group biography…

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      Yiddish in the Cold War

      Gennady Estraikh

      This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, France and Israel…

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      Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture

      This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which tell the dramatic story of Yiddish cultural life in…

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      Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister

      The book is based on the papers presented at the Mendel Friedman Yiddish conference held at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, in August 2012, revisits the rich and diverse…

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      Yiddish in the Cold War

      Gennady Estraikh

      This book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, France and Israel…

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      The Shtetl: Image and Reality: Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

      The papers published in this volume re-examine the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives view the Shtetl trenchently…

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      Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

      Gennady Estraikh

      This is a selection of papers from the third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, exploring the relationship between the Yiddish language and Leftist movements such as communism and socialism.

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      Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: After Stalin, 1953-1967, Volume 5

      Gennady Estraikh

      This book describes the joy and problems in life of the multilayered Soviet Jewish society during the years between Josef Stalin’s demise in March 1953, and Moscow’s breaking of diplomatic…

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      In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism

      Gennady Estraikh

      A glimpse into the lives and times of Yiddish writers enthralled with Communism at the turn of the century through the mid-1930s.

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      Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

      Gennady Estraikh

      In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labour movement. They formed the milieu of the…

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      Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture

      This volume includes contributions by an international team of leading scholars dealing with various aspects of history, arts and literature, which tell the dramatic story of Yiddish cultural life in…

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      Uncovering the Hidden: The Works and Life of Der Nister

      The book is based on the papers presented at the Mendel Friedman Yiddish conference held at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, in August 2012, revisits the rich and diverse…

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      Soviet Yiddish: Language-planning and Linguistic Development

      Gennady Estraikh

      A study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reforms is created from contemporary publications and archive material from pre-Revolutionary Russia to the 1980s…

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      Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

      Gennady Estraikh

      An annual international gathering provides ongoing analysis of Yiddish language, literature and culture. Published here are papers from the 1998 conference, held in Oxford.

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      The History of Birobidzhan

      Professor Gennady Estraikh

      Gennady Estraikh's book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in…

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      Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow

      Mikhail Krutikov,Gennady Estraikh

      This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch’s epic trilogy Three Cities.

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      1929: Mapping the Jewish World

      Features an array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics…

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      Women, Men and Books: Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse

      Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line ‘Story books for women, holy books for men’ in the opening scene of the…

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      1929: Mapping the Jewish World

      Features an array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics…

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      Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow

      This volume examines the variety of Yiddish publishing, educational, literary, academic, and theatrical activities in the former imperial metropolises from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth century, and…

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      Women, Men and Books: Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse

      Yiddish literature is commonly perceived as a gendered cultural space, as neatly summarised by the line ‘Story books for women, holy books for men’ in the opening scene of the…

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      Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering

      Harriet Murav,Gennady Estraikh

      Discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945…

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      Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering

      Harriet Murav,Gennady Estraikh

      Discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945…

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      The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia

      Professor Gennady Estraikh (New York University, USA)

      Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the Jewish territory in the Far…

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      Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity: From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

      Gennady Estraikh,Kerstin Hoge,Krutikov Mikhail

      Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century.

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      Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity: From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

      Gennady Estraikh,Kerstin Hoge,Krutikov Mikhail

      Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century.

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      Building Modern Jewish Culture

      In the midst of the violent conflicts of 1918 ambitious plans for new cultural formations emerged on the territory of the former Russian Empire. The most important Jewish community organization…

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      Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art

      Gennady Estraikh,Jordan Flnkin,Kerstin Hoge,Mikhail Krutikov

      This book explores the rich treasury of Sholem Aleichem translations, focusing primarily on the European context. It suggests that the many-faceted issue of translating Sholem Aleichem can be considered from…

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      Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art

      Gennady Estraikh,Jordan Flnkin,Kerstin Hoge,Mikhail Krutikov

      This book explores the rich treasury of Sholem Aleichem translations, focusing primarily on the European context. It suggests that the many-faceted issue of translating Sholem Aleichem can be considered from…

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      Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939-1945, Volume 3

      Oleg Budnitskii,David Engel,Gennady Estraikh,Anna Shternshis

      Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War II

      At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the…

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