1929 : : Mapping the Jewish World / / ed. by Hasia R. Diner, Gennady Estraikh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abramson, Glenda,; Ben-Zaken, Avner,; Brinkmann, Tobias,; Diner, Hasia R.,; Engel, David,; Estraikh, Gennady,; Goldstein, Eric L.,; Kobrin, Rebecca,; Krutikov, Mikhail,; Lesser, Jeffrey,; Safran, Gabriella,; Sherman, Joseph,; Srebrnik, Henry,; Zalashik, Rakefet,
• HerausgeberIn: Diner, Hasia R.,; Estraikh, Gennady,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and CollectionsThe year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Global Ties
• 1. Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally
• 2. Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads
• 3. The Stalinist “Great Break” in Yiddishland
• 4. Permanent Transit
• 5. Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929
• 6. Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929
• 7. Territorialism and the ICOR “American Commission of Scientists and Experts” to the Soviet Far East
• Part II: Local Stories
• 8. From Universal Values to Cultural Representations
• 9. The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America
• 10. When the Local Trumps the Global
• Part III: Literature
• 11. Patterning a New Life
• 12. David Vogel
• 13. Radical Conservatism
• 14. Desire, Destiny, and Death
• Index
• Contributors