Yiddish-Language World History and the Emergence of a Jewish Nationalist Politics in Late Imperial Russia

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ID12524123
AutoresThomas Prendergast (Duke University, autor de correspondencia), Thomas R Prendergast (Duke University)
Año2020
Volumen50
Número1-2
Páginas78-94
Fecha de publicación2020-05-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEast European Jewish Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-1674 • E-ISSN: 1743-971X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501674.2020.1774284
OpenAlexW3082325109
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas25

Scholars have long posited a connection between the emergence of Jewish historical consciousness and the “new Jewish politics” of the period 1881–1917. They have largely neglected, however, the many popular Yiddish-language histories that appeared during this time. These popular histories – nearly all of them printed in Warsaw and dedicated to the topic of “world history” – were sold in the first decade of the twentieth century by newly established Yiddish publishing houses and were heavily advertised in the burgeoning Yiddish daily press. I argue that the narratives of cultural work presented in this genre of history provided a conceptual infrastructure for the eventual articulation of a Jewish mass politics in the post-1905 era. Moving beyond the textual analysis of canonical (Russian and Hebrew-language) historical literature reveals the discourses and practices that enabled Yiddish-speakers in the rapidly urbanizing Pale to imagine the Jewish nation as a coherent historical agent

Art · Haskalah · Hebrew · Jewish American literature · Jewish culture · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Yiddish · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior

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