Czernowitz at 100 [[electronic resource] ] : the first Yiddish language conference in historical perspective / / edited by Kalman Weiser and Joshua A. Fogel

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 439/.109
• Soggetto topico: Yiddish philology; Jews - Ukraine - Chernivt͡si - Intellectual life - 20th century; Yiddish language - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern; Yiddish language - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: FogelJoshua A. <1950-> WeiserKeith Ian <1973->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Chapter 01. Introduction; Chapter 02. The Czernowitz Conference: Contexts, Ironies, and the Verdict of Jewish History; Part I. POLITICS, LANGUAGE, AND IDEOLOGY; Chapter 03. A Tale of Two Photographs: Nathan Birnbaum, the Election of 1907, and the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference; Chapter 04. Peretz's Commitment to Yiddish in Czernowitz: A National Caprice?; Chapter 05. Mother-tongue, Mame-loshn, and Kulturshprakh: The Tension between Populism and Elitism in the Language Ideology of Noah Prylucki; Part II. LITERATURE AND THE ARTS; Chapter 06. Y. L. Peretz and the Politics of Yiddish ; Chapter 07. Reclaiming Czernowitz in Aharon Appelfeld's Flowers of DarknessChapter 08. Dem Oyle Regls Tokhter: The Poetic Pilgrimage of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman; Chapter 09. The Painter as Ethnographer: Maurycy Minkowski and the European Yiddish Intelligentsia before World War I; Part III. THE LEGACY OF CZERNOWITZ; Chapter 10. The Success of the Czernowitz Yiddish Conference: Setting the Agenda for Yiddish Language Planning in the Twentieth Century*; Chapter 11. From Czernowitz to Paris: The International Yiddish Culture Congress of 1937; Chapter 12. Yiddishism in Canadian Garb ; Part IV. APPENDICESChapter 13. The Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Archives, Toronto; Chapter 14. Mates Mieses's Defense of the Yiddish Language; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection that assesses the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held in Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi in Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of scholars re-examining eastern European Jewish life, each contributor examines the successes and failures of the Yiddishist movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Czernowitz at 100
• ISBN: 1-282-49501-1; 9786612495014; 0-7391-4071-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819290503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II