Publication

2020 - Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter

Language

English

Word Count

93,000 words, Guess

Page Count

372 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783631808450
  • ISBN-103631808453
  • OCLC Control Number1137832804
  • Better World Books9783631808450
  • Open LibraryOL29492805M

Classifications

  • LCCHX550.J4 N36 2020

Description

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in PolandLang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter2020-01-01

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