Jewish People, Yiddish Nation : : Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland / / Kalman Weiser.

• VerfasserIn: Weiser, Kalman,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 16 illustrations

Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russif...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Echoes of Yiddish
• Language and Nationalism in Eastern European Jewish Society
• Outline of the Book
• A Note on the Spelling of Names
• 1. Jewish Life, Language, and Politics in Poland
• 2. The Making of a Jewish Nationalist: Noah Prylucki and the Warsaw Yiddish Press
• 3. Creating Modern Yiddish Culture
• 4. Cultural Politics in Action: The Birth of Folkism
• 5. From Avant- to Arrière-garde: The Folksparty in Interwar Poland
• 6. Compromises? The Chair of Yiddish at the University of Vilnius
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index