This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch’s epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow at the crucial historical moment of the collapse of the Russian Empire, this volume examines the variety of Yiddish publishing, educational, literary, academic, and theatrical activities in the former imperial metropolises from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth century, and explores the representations of those cities in Yiddish literature.
Gennady Estraikh is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University. Mikhail Krutikov is Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Reviews:
‘The British book series “Studies in Yiddish,” published by Legenda (and known among academics as “the Legenda series”), is in my estimation the most important venue for contemporary research on Yiddish literature and culture in the world today... Krutikov deals with the travelogue Hoyptshtet (Capital Cities) of 1934, written by Der Nister (“The Hidden One”), one of the greatest Soviet-Yiddish writers. The German professor Sabine Koller also contributes an essay dedicated to Der Nister’s book, which records his impressions of Leningrad, Moscow, and Kharkov during the 1920s. It’s a real delight to see so much attention is devoted to this book, which has been relatively unappreciated in previous considerations of Der Nister.’ — Marc Caplan, Forward2 August 2017
‘In “Moscow Threefold: Olgin, Bergelson, Benjamin,” Murav elegantly analyzes depictions of Moscow in the mid-1920s by three writers. Emphasizing Moscow as a Jewish “space of contiguity,” Murav addresses no less the relating of Moscow to time... If Olgin’s Moscow “has achieved . . . its future,” the works of Benjamin and Bergelson show more ambivalence, and Murav is especially vivid on Bergelson’s vision of destruction likely to precede any possible redemption, which may end up permanently deferred.’ — Jeffrey A. Grossman, Slavic Review Spring 2019, 293-95
Contents:
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Three Cities of Yiddish: Three Cities of Yiddish Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov
Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail, ‘Three Cities of Yiddish: Three Cities of Yiddish’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. i–vi
First footnote reference:35 Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov, ‘Three Cities of Yiddish: Three Cities of Yiddish’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. i–vi, p. 21.
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail. 2017. ‘Three Cities of Yiddish: Three Cities of Yiddish’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. i–vi
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail, ‘Table of Contents’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. vii–viii
First footnote reference:35 Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov, ‘Table of Contents’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. vii–viii, p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Estraikh and Krutikov, p. 47.
Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail. 2017. ‘Table of Contents’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. vii–viii
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G.E., and M.K., ‘Acknowledgements’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. ix–x
First footnote reference:35 G.E., M.K., ‘Acknowledgements’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. ix–x, p. 21.
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G.E., and M.K.. 2017. ‘Acknowledgements’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. ix–x
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail, ‘Introduction: Revisiting Three Cities’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 1–4
First footnote reference:35 Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov, ‘Introduction: Revisiting Three Cities’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 1–4, p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Estraikh and Krutikov, p. 47.
Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail. 2017. ‘Introduction: Revisiting Three Cities’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 1–4
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Veidlinger, Jeffrey, ‘Chapter 1 Jewish Geography in Three Cities: St Petersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw in 1897’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 5–21
First footnote reference:35 Jeffrey Veidlinger, ‘Chapter 1 Jewish Geography in Three Cities: St Petersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw in 1897’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 5–21, p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Veidlinger, p. 47.
Veidlinger, Jeffrey. 2017. ‘Chapter 1 Jewish Geography in Three Cities: St Petersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw in 1897’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 5–21
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Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna, ‘Chapter 2 Missionaries of the Jewish Nation: Meeting Points Between Russian and Polish Jewry Before the First World War’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 22–32
First footnote reference:35 Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, ‘Chapter 2 Missionaries of the Jewish Nation: Meeting Points Between Russian and Polish Jewry Before the First World War’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 22–32, p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Nalewajko-Kulikov, p. 47.
Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna. 2017. ‘Chapter 2 Missionaries of the Jewish Nation: Meeting Points Between Russian and Polish Jewry Before the First World War’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 22–32
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Beeri, Sima, ‘Chapter 3 What the Readers Think: Two Reader Surveys in the Literarishe Bleter’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 33–44
First footnote reference:35 Sima Beeri, ‘Chapter 3 What the Readers Think: Two Reader Surveys in the Literarishe Bleter’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 33–44, p. 21.
Beeri, Sima. 2017. ‘Chapter 3 What the Readers Think: Two Reader Surveys in the Literarishe Bleter’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 33–44
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Murav, Harriet, ‘Chapter 4 Moscow Threefold: Olgin, Bergelson, Benjamin’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 45–55
First footnote reference:35 Harriet Murav, ‘Chapter 4 Moscow Threefold: Olgin, Bergelson, Benjamin’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 45–55, p. 21.
Murav, Harriet. 2017. ‘Chapter 4 Moscow Threefold: Olgin, Bergelson, Benjamin’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 45–55
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Estraikh, Gennady, ‘Chapter 5 Sholem Asch’s Moscow Sojourn, 1928’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 56–72
First footnote reference:35 Gennady Estraikh, ‘Chapter 5 Sholem Asch’s Moscow Sojourn, 1928’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 56–72, p. 21.
Estraikh, Gennady. 2017. ‘Chapter 5 Sholem Asch’s Moscow Sojourn, 1928’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 56–72
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Koller, Sabine, ‘Chapter 6 Der Nister’s “Leningrad”: A Phantom Fartseykhenung’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 73–89
First footnote reference:35 Sabine Koller, ‘Chapter 6 Der Nister’s “Leningrad”: A Phantom Fartseykhenung’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 73–89, p. 21.
Koller, Sabine. 2017. ‘Chapter 6 Der Nister’s “Leningrad”: A Phantom Fartseykhenung’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 73–89
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Krutikov, Mikhail, ‘Chapter 7 From Facts To Symbols: Space and Architecture in Der Nister’s Hoyptshtet’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 90–103
First footnote reference:35 Mikhail Krutikov, ‘Chapter 7 From Facts To Symbols: Space and Architecture in Der Nister’s Hoyptshtet’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 90–103, p. 21.
Krutikov, Mikhail. 2017. ‘Chapter 7 From Facts To Symbols: Space and Architecture in Der Nister’s Hoyptshtet’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 90–103
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Frenkel, Alexander, ‘Chapter 8 Did Mikhail Epelbaum Study at Warsaw Conservatoire?: the Early Years of An Eminent Yiddish Singer’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 104–23
First footnote reference:35 Alexander Frenkel, ‘Chapter 8 Did Mikhail Epelbaum Study at Warsaw Conservatoire?: the Early Years of An Eminent Yiddish Singer’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 104–23, p. 21.
Frenkel, Alexander. 2017. ‘Chapter 8 Did Mikhail Epelbaum Study at Warsaw Conservatoire?: the Early Years of An Eminent Yiddish Singer’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 104–23
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Eliasberg, Galina, ‘Chapter 9 Warsaw, St Petersburg, and Moscow in the Life of the Yiddish Actress Clara Young’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 124–40
First footnote reference:35 Galina Eliasberg, ‘Chapter 9 Warsaw, St Petersburg, and Moscow in the Life of the Yiddish Actress Clara Young’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 124–40, p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Eliasberg, p. 47.
Eliasberg, Galina. 2017. ‘Chapter 9 Warsaw, St Petersburg, and Moscow in the Life of the Yiddish Actress Clara Young’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 124–40
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Ivanov, Alexander, ‘Chapter 10 Yiddish Music and Musicology in Petrograd/leningrad/st Petersburg Through the Prism of the City Archives’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 141–57
First footnote reference:35 Alexander Ivanov, ‘Chapter 10 Yiddish Music and Musicology in Petrograd/leningrad/st Petersburg Through the Prism of the City Archives’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 141–57, p. 21.
Ivanov, Alexander. 2017. ‘Chapter 10 Yiddish Music and Musicology in Petrograd/leningrad/st Petersburg Through the Prism of the City Archives’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 141–57
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Sokolova, Alla, ‘Chapter 11 Between Ethnography of Religion and Anti-Religious Propaganda: Jewish Graphics in the Leningrad and Moscow Museums in 1930s’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 158–93
First footnote reference:35 Alla Sokolova, ‘Chapter 11 Between Ethnography of Religion and Anti-Religious Propaganda: Jewish Graphics in the Leningrad and Moscow Museums in 1930s’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 158–93, p. 21.
Sokolova, Alla. 2017. ‘Chapter 11 Between Ethnography of Religion and Anti-Religious Propaganda: Jewish Graphics in the Leningrad and Moscow Museums in 1930s’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 158–93
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail, ‘Index’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 194–202
First footnote reference:35 Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov, ‘Index’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017), pp. 194–202, p. 21.
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Krutikov, Mikhail. 2017. ‘Index’, in Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda), pp. 194–202
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds), Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2017)
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds). 2017. Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow, Studies In Yiddish, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda)
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