Description
| Product ID: | 9783631803875 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Studies in Jewish History and Memory |
| Title: | A Citizen of Yiddishland |
| Subtitle: | Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland |
| Authors: | Author: Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Paul Glasser |
| Page Count: | 372 |
| Subjects: | History, History, Society and culture: general, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Society & culture: general, Marxism & Communism, Eastern Europe, 20th century |
| Description: | This study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. A biography of Dovid Sfard allows us to see the whole panorama of Jewish choices in 20th-century Eastern Europe. This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central protagonist of the book, a Yiddish writer Dovid (David) Sfard, is just a pretext to show a full range of Jewish Communist activists (such as Hersh Smolar, Bernard Mark, Szymon Zachariasz, etc.) and their life choices. This relatively small milieu influenced and controlled the Jewish life in post-war Poland until the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968. Their lives, reconstructed thanks to sources in several languages, make up a panorama of Jewish Communist experience in 20th-century Eastern Europe. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-24 |
