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Author Weiser, Keith Ian, 1973- author.

Title Jewish people, Yiddish nation : Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland / Kalman (Keith) Weiser
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Jewish life, language, and politics in Poland -- The making of a Jewish nationalist: Noah Prylucki and the Warsaw Yiddish Press -- Creating modern Yiddish culture -- Cultural politics in action: the birth of folkism -- From Avant- to Arriè̀re-garde: the folksparty in interwar Poland -- Compromises? the chair of Yiddish at the University of Vilnius
Summary Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, to professor of Yiddish in Soviet Lithuania - uniquely reflects the dilemmas and competing options facing the Jews of this era as life in Eastern Europe underwent radical transformation.Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, memoirs, interviews, and materials from the vibrant interwar Jewish and Polish presses, Kalman Weiser investigates the rise and fall of Yiddishism and of Prylucki's political party, the Folkists, in the post-World War One era. Jewish People, Yiddish Nation reveals the life of a remarkable individual and the fortunes of a major cultural movement that has long been obscured
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes some text in Yiddish
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Subject Jews -- Poland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Yiddish language -- Social aspects -- Poland
Yiddish language -- Political aspects -- Poland
Yiddish language -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Poland -- Civilization -- 20th century
Jews -- Poland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Yiddishists -- Poland -- Biography
Jews -- Poland -- Biography
Politicians -- Poland -- Biography
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Yiddish.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Jews
Jews -- Civilization
Jews -- Intellectual life
Jews -- Politics and government
Politicians
Yiddish language
Yiddish language -- Political aspects
Yiddish language -- Social aspects
Yiddishists
Poland
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442662094
1442662093