Yiddish in the Contemporary World
Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov

Studies In Yiddish 1

Legenda

1 July 1999  •  166pp

ISBN: 1-900755-33-5 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

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In August 1908 a few prominent Jews - socialists, liberals, non-political writers and cultural organizers - met in Czernowitz to work out a programme for promoting Yiddish as the official language of Ashkenazic Jews. To celebrate the 90th anniversary of this historic event the University of Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies organized 'Yiddish in the Contemporary World' (19-21 April 1998), which reviewed academic work in European, Israeli and North American universities. The present volume of conference papers, by leading Yiddish scholars, provides a remarkable panoramic view of Yiddish at the end of the twentieth century.

Contents:

1-20

Between Town and Gown: The Institutionalization of Yiddish at Israeli Universities
Avraham Novershtern

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21-30

Yiddish Studies and the Jewish Search for a Usable Past
David G. Roskies

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31-42

Defining the Yiddish Canon: Meditations on the Teaching of Yiddish Literature
Dafna Clifford

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43-56

Yiddish Studies in Germany Today
Marion Aptroot

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57-72

Is There a Place for Yiddish in Poland's Jewish Revival?
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

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73-92

Soviet Yiddish Literature of the 1960s-80s and its Russian Translations
Mikhail Krutikov

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93-106

Yiddish in Contemporary American Culture
Janet Hadda

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107-118

The Post-1945 Klezmer Revival
Walter Salmen

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119-132

Has the 'Golden Chain' Ended? Problems of Continuity in Yiddish Writing
Gennady Estraikh

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133-152

Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union since 1989: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis
Mark Tolts

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Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds), Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, Studies In Yiddish, 1 (Legenda, 1999)

First footnote reference: 35 Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 1 (Legenda, 1999), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Estraikh and Krutikov, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds). 1999. Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Papers of the First Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, Studies In Yiddish, 1 (Legenda)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Estraikh and Krutikov 1999: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Estraikh and Krutikov 1999: 21.

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