Yiddish Civilisation by Paul Kriwaczek
The Rise and Fall of a People's Culture
A lively cultural history that traces the rise, flowering and near-eradication of a distinct Yiddish-speaking civilization in Europe and the diaspora, explaining how a language and its literature, theater, press, religious movements and political currents shaped communal identity from medieval Ashkenazic roots through the vibrant shtetl cultures, the modernizing pressures of Haskalah and socialism, mass migration and the ravages of the twentieth century; the narrative balances linguistic and social history with portraits of key figures and institutions to show how Yiddishness created a rich, plural civilizational world whose legacy survives despite catastrophic loss.
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- 2005
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