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Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook
“YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish Scientific Institute”2016 •
Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation, eds. Yuu Nishimura and Mari Nomura
"Knowledge for the People: YIVO and the Development of Yiddish Scholarship,"2017 •
The unexpected revitalization of Polish Jewish traditionalism—Hasidic and non-Hasidic—is particularly visible in the realm of education. During the interwar period, a combined influx of pious refugees from the Soviet Union and American Jewish funds bolstered traditionalist Jewish elementary schools and yeshivot. At the same time, traditionalists reformed those institutions in response to emergent secularist Jewish movements. Polish Jewish traditionalism was subtly transformed in the process, presenting a striking contrast with other more rigid “ultra-orthodox” Hungarian counterparts, while offering a viable alternative to secularist Jewish subcultures within Poland. This article highlights the surprising adaptability of Poland’s traditionalist Jewish communities during a period usually conceived as one of secularist Jewish growth and traditionalist decline.
East European Jewish Affairs
Max Weinreich, assimilation and the social politics of Jewish nation-building2011 •
Through an analysis of the methodological and theoretical writings of Max Weinreich that were devoted to the inter-war Jewish youth research programme at the Jewish Scientific Institute (YIVO), this article discusses the ideological and political assumptions that lay behind this scientific project. Deconstructing the main research categories of the project, the author presents ways in which Weinreich and his associates constructed the Jewish nation and its place in the new inter-war political and social reality. This reality was seen in a complex manner, as a simultaneous chance for Jewish modernisation, upward mobility, productivisation, and as a response to the threat of modern state institutions that were introducing discriminatory policies, and, most importantly, assimilation. The last process was seen as the biggest danger, which could fragment and finally even dissolve the essentialist, secular and national model of Jewish community as envisioned by Max Weinreich and YIVO. The author shows how the essentialist vision of the nation omnipotent in inter-war Poland (among both Polish and Jewish communities) introduced unresolved tension between the need for social and cultural integration of the Jews, which was important for Weinreich and his circle, and the simultaneous aim of building a culturally and politically coherent Jewish nation. Further discussion shows how this kind of perception of social reality transformed a scientific research project into a kind of social intervention and nation-building programme, comparable to the ideologies of Jewish national secularist political parties. While presenting itself as a universal, national institution and addressing its call to all Jewish youth, YIVO promoted a particular political view of the Jewish nation and its tradition, history and religion. By engaging Jewish youth in a research programme devoted to its “personality,” one of the hidden aims of the project was to influence the political and social consciousness of Eastern Europe's Jewish youth.
This review essay on Jewish "traditionalism" (Hasidism, musar, Orthodoxy,etc.) argues that, notwithstanding a past tendency among historians to magnify secularist trends within modern East European Jewry, several new works suggest a revitalization of traditionalism in the region during the modern era.
Introduction: William Craft Brumfield vi PART I: Russian-Jewish Historians and Historiography The Return of the Ḥeder among Russian-Jewish Education Experts, 1840–1917 2 ‘Building a Fragile Edifice’: A History of Russian-Jewish Historical Institutions, 1860–1914 Myths and Counter-Myths about Odessa’s Jewish Intelligentsia during the Late Tsarist Period Saul Borovoi’s Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times 53 The Ideological Challenges of S. M. Dubnov in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine 70 PART II: Russian–Jewish Intelligentsia’s Cultural Vibrancy 85 Semyon An-sky—Dialogic Writer 86 Russian-Jewish Writers Face Pogroms, 1880–1914 111 M. O. Gershenzon, Alexander Pushkin, the Bible, and the Flaws of Jewish Nationalism 123 Battling for Self-Definition in Soviet Literature: Boris Eikhenbaum’s Jewish Question 139 Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Mystique of 1905 156 Vladimir Jabotinsky and Violence 177 PART III: Jewish Heritage in Russian Perception 197 Vladimir Solov’ev and the Jews: A View from Today 198 Fear and Stereotyping: Vasily Rozanov and Jewish Menace 215 Bibliography 233 Index
The remnant of the eastern European Jews that arrived in Israel after the Holocaust established a vibrant center of Yiddish culture in Tel Aviv. This paper tells its story. It spotlights the uniqueness of the Tel Aviv center in comparison with similar cultural centers established by eastern European Jews in other cities around the world, both before and after the Holocaust. It portrays the Jewish cultural activists and leaders that composed the Tel Aviv Yiddish center, the special conditions that awaited them in Israel, the institutions that they established , and their aftermath. Finally, it considers the Tel Aviv Yiddish cultural center as a test case for examining the social role of the Jewish cultural center after the Holocaust. Avrom Sutzkever, 1 widely considered the last giant of modern Yiddish poetry, was the founder and editor of Di goldene keyt, the celebrated Yiddish literary journal published in Tel Aviv (from 1949 to 1995). The journal was widely read in centers of Yiddish culture throughout the world. In 1959, during a visit to Montreal, a vibrant center of Yiddish culture at the time, Sutzkever wrote a report to his colleague Mordkhe Tsanin, 2 the founder and editor of the Tel Aviv–based
, Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Oxford University Press 2012. Vol. 16, pp. 324-326
Ben Zion Dinur, Posthumous and Other Writings, Edited. by Arielle Rein, Jerusalem 20092012 •
Medaon 4 (2009)
Historiography on the General Jewish Labor Bund: Traditions, Tendencies and Expectations2009 •
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
“From Edification to Commemoration: Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye, the Holocaust, and the Changing Mission of Yiddish scholarship” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 5, No. 3 (Nov. 2006): 285-300.2006 •
Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation, eds. Yuu Nishimura and Mari Nomura
"The Capital of Yiddishland: Yiddish Culture in Vilna between the Two World Wars"2017 •
2017 •
American Jewish History
From the Archives: Lucy S. Dawidowicz and the Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property2016 •
Flavius Josephus in the Modern Culture
Reading and interpreting Flavius Josephus in the Vilna and Warsaw Ghettos (1941-1945)2019 •
The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews From Different Perspectives. In Memory of I. L. Peretz
“Writers were like Gods to me.” Peretz and the New Jewish Visual Culture2017 •
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait
A Prophet of Consolation on the Threshold of Destruction Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon, an Intellectual Portrait2015 •
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Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
Contending with Horror: Jewish Aid Work in the Russian Civil War Pogroms2019 •
Judaica Petropolitana
For Race is Mute and Mame-loshn Can Speak. Yiddish Philology, Conceptions of Race, and Defense of Yidishkayt2016 •
2017 •
American Jewish History
"Laboratories of Yiddishkayt": Postwar American Jewish Summer Camps and the Transformation of Yiddishism2019 •
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis, ed. Glenn Dynner and Francois Guesnet
Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw2015 •
S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods, Documentation
'A Territory, but not a State. The Territorialists’ Visions for a Jewish Future after the Shoah (1943–1960)'2017 •
The Revealer (NYU Center for Religion & Media)
Fate on Hold: Jewish Collectors at War2018 •