David Shneer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Shneer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Shneer |
| SIGNATURE | SHNEER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Singing between two worlds
Although post World War II Berlin is usually held up as the front line of the Cold War, it was precisely in Berlin where the “Iron Curtain” was porous. Lin Jaldati (pronounced “Yaldati”), a Dutch Jewish Communist Yiddish cabaret singer and dancer ... and Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivor, had been performing in Berlin since 1947. She gave her first wildly popular concert for displaced persons there in an American DP camp. Her popularity all ov…
A ndrew S loin . The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
In the late 1920s, one could disembark at the main rail station in Minsk and see the city’s name boldly marked in four languages: Belorussian, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish. At the time, it was the only major European city to mark public space in Yiddish and the only Eastern European city where one could write addresses on postcards and letters in Yiddish, certain they would be delivered. These would be signs that Belorussia in the 1920s went thro…
Fifty Years After the Refusenik Movement
In 1971, William Korey, a scholar of Russian history, a prolific author, and a senior leader of B’nai B'rith International, published a piece about the Soviet restrictions on Jewish emigration in t
Post Holocaust Cultures
The Elusive Search for Evidence
I began studying Soviet photography in the early 2000s. To be more specific, I began studying Soviet photographers, most of whom had "Jewish" written on their internal passports, as I sought to understand how it was possible that a large number of photographers creating images of World War II were members of an ethnic group that was soon to be persecuted by the highest levels of the state. I ended up uncovering the social history of Soviet Jews a…
Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II
Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II: German occupation, Soviet evacuation, and the imagined relationship between these two experiences." East European Jewish Affairs, 46(1), pp. 2–3
How Eastern European Jewish immigrants, modernist Yiddish culture, and anti-fascist politics dragged the Netherlands into the twentieth century
My essay examines Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the Netherlands between the two world wars with a focus on Amsterdam, the Jewish center of the country. The Netherlands was never a major recipient of migrants of any kind, let alone Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Despite seeing the Netherlands primarily as a transit site, enough Yiddish-speakers stayed – either due to finding work in the country or because they failed to get entry papers to o…
When Soviet Jewish photographers confront the very American question of identity
I can spot a Russian immigrant from a mile away. OK, maybe not a mile, because my vision isn’t that good, but most immigrants represent their places of origin through a complex code of visual signi
American Queer, Now and Then
queer [adj]: 1 differing from what is usual or ordinary; odd; singular; strange 2 slightly ill; 3 mentally unbalanced 4 counterfeit; not genuine 5 homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision, but lately used by some as a descriptive term without negative connotations --Webster's Dictionary queer [adj]: used to describe a 1 body of theory 2 field of critical inquiry 3 way of proudly identifying a group of peopl…
Why Jewish Museums
Is Seeing Believing? Photographs, Eyewitness Testimony, and Evidence of the Holocaust
During World War II, the first media outlets to publish photographs of the Nazi mass murder of Jews and others were Soviet newspapers and magazines. The problem with Soviet photographs was that the Soviet media were considered unreliable from a Western standpoint, because unlike in the West, which perceived a clear ideological differentiation of art from photojournalism, Soviet photography blurred that distinction. According to Western standards …
East European Jewish Affairs
It is both humbling and exciting to introduce this issue of East European Jewish Affairs under our new coeditorship. We have quite large shoes to fill: our predecessors have all been leading schola
Queer Jews
Russian Jewish Intellectual History and the Making of Secular Jewish Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train
The third way
From 1990 until 2008, about 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union migrated to Germany. At the same time, Germany re-unified and took its place at the centre of the new Europe. In a global world, in which people maintain multiple homes, languages, identities and means of communication across thousands of miles, these migrants challenged German Jewish notions of identity, rootedness and community. Their particular Soviet and post-Soviet approac…
Rediscovering Traces of Memory
Picturing Grief
The Writer Uprooted
Yiddish in the Cold War
A Study in Red
Argument In the 1920s the Soviet Union invested a group of talented, mostly socialist, occasionally Communist, Jewish writers and thinkers to use the power of the state to remake Jewish culture and identity. The Communist state had inherited a multiethnic empire from its tsarist predecessors and supported the creation of secular cultures for each ethnicity. These cultures would be based not on religion, but on language and culture. Soviet Jews ha…
Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture
Introduction 1. Soviet nationalities policies and the making of the Soviet Yiddish Intelligentsia 2. Ideology and Jewish language politics: How Yiddish became the national language of Soviet Jewry 3. Modernising Yiddish 4. Who owns the means of cultural production? The Soviet Yiddish publishing industry of the 1920s 5. Engineers of Jewish souls: Soviet Yiddish writers envisioning the Jewish past, present and future 6. Becoming revolutionary: Izi …
An ambivalent revolutionary
Making Yiddish modern
Cet article raconte l'histoire de la creation d'un etablissement philologique yiddish en Union sovietique dans les annees 1920 qui montre la force de la centralisation autant que ses limites. Un institut a Minsk, un autre a Kiev, creation du journal philologique professionel Di Yidishe Shprakh (La langue yiddish) qui a reussi a codifier et a etendre la reforme linguistique entreprise par les erudits sovietiques du yiddish, la premiere conference …
Is Seeing Believing? Photographs, Eyewitness Testimony, and Evidence of the Holocaust
During World War II, the first media outlets to publish photographs of the Nazi mass murder of Jews and others were Soviet newspapers and magazines. The problem with Soviet photographs was that the Soviet media were considered unreliable from a Western standpoint, because unlike in the West, which perceived a clear ideological differentiation of art from photojournalism, Soviet photography blurred that distinction. According to Western standards …
How Eastern European Jewish immigrants, modernist Yiddish culture, and anti-fascist politics dragged the Netherlands into the twentieth century
My essay examines Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the Netherlands between the two world wars with a focus on Amsterdam, the Jewish center of the country. The Netherlands was never a major recipient of migrants of any kind, let alone Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Despite seeing the Netherlands primarily as a transit site, enough Yiddish-speakers stayed – either due to finding work in the country or because they failed to get entry papers to o…
Why Jewish Museums
Rediscovering Traces of Memory
An ambivalent revolutionary
Making Yiddish modern
Cet article raconte l'histoire de la creation d'un etablissement philologique yiddish en Union sovietique dans les annees 1920 qui montre la force de la centralisation autant que ses limites. Un institut a Minsk, un autre a Kiev, creation du journal philologique professionel Di Yidishe Shprakh (La langue yiddish) qui a reussi a codifier et a etendre la reforme linguistique entreprise par les erudits sovietiques du yiddish, la premiere conference …
An ambivalent revolutionary
Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture
Introduction 1. Soviet nationalities policies and the making of the Soviet Yiddish Intelligentsia 2. Ideology and Jewish language politics: How Yiddish became the national language of Soviet Jewry 3. Modernising Yiddish 4. Who owns the means of cultural production? The Soviet Yiddish publishing industry of the 1920s 5. Engineers of Jewish souls: Soviet Yiddish writers envisioning the Jewish past, present and future 6. Becoming revolutionary: Izi …
A Study in Red
Argument In the 1920s the Soviet Union invested a group of talented, mostly socialist, occasionally Communist, Jewish writers and thinkers to use the power of the state to remake Jewish culture and identity. The Communist state had inherited a multiethnic empire from its tsarist predecessors and supported the creation of secular cultures for each ethnicity. These cultures would be based not on religion, but on language and culture. Soviet Jews ha…
The Writer Uprooted
Yiddish in the Cold War
Rediscovering Traces of Memory
Picturing Grief
The third way
From 1990 until 2008, about 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union migrated to Germany. At the same time, Germany re-unified and took its place at the centre of the new Europe. In a global world, in which people maintain multiple homes, languages, identities and means of communication across thousands of miles, these migrants challenged German Jewish notions of identity, rootedness and community. Their particular Soviet and post-Soviet approac…
Russian Jewish Intellectual History and the Making of Secular Jewish Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train
Queer Jews
Is Seeing Believing? Photographs, Eyewitness Testimony, and Evidence of the Holocaust
During World War II, the first media outlets to publish photographs of the Nazi mass murder of Jews and others were Soviet newspapers and magazines. The problem with Soviet photographs was that the Soviet media were considered unreliable from a Western standpoint, because unlike in the West, which perceived a clear ideological differentiation of art from photojournalism, Soviet photography blurred that distinction. According to Western standards …
East European Jewish Affairs
It is both humbling and exciting to introduce this issue of East European Jewish Affairs under our new coeditorship. We have quite large shoes to fill: our predecessors have all been leading schola
American Queer, Now and Then
queer [adj]: 1 differing from what is usual or ordinary; odd; singular; strange 2 slightly ill; 3 mentally unbalanced 4 counterfeit; not genuine 5 homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision, but lately used by some as a descriptive term without negative connotations --Webster's Dictionary queer [adj]: used to describe a 1 body of theory 2 field of critical inquiry 3 way of proudly identifying a group of peopl…
Why Jewish Museums
Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II
Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II: German occupation, Soviet evacuation, and the imagined relationship between these two experiences." East European Jewish Affairs, 46(1), pp. 2–3
How Eastern European Jewish immigrants, modernist Yiddish culture, and anti-fascist politics dragged the Netherlands into the twentieth century
My essay examines Yiddish-speaking immigrants in the Netherlands between the two world wars with a focus on Amsterdam, the Jewish center of the country. The Netherlands was never a major recipient of migrants of any kind, let alone Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Despite seeing the Netherlands primarily as a transit site, enough Yiddish-speakers stayed – either due to finding work in the country or because they failed to get entry papers to o…
When Soviet Jewish photographers confront the very American question of identity
I can spot a Russian immigrant from a mile away. OK, maybe not a mile, because my vision isn’t that good, but most immigrants represent their places of origin through a complex code of visual signi
The Elusive Search for Evidence
I began studying Soviet photography in the early 2000s. To be more specific, I began studying Soviet photographers, most of whom had "Jewish" written on their internal passports, as I sought to understand how it was possible that a large number of photographers creating images of World War II were members of an ethnic group that was soon to be persecuted by the highest levels of the state. I ended up uncovering the social history of Soviet Jews a…
Post Holocaust Cultures
Fifty Years After the Refusenik Movement
In 1971, William Korey, a scholar of Russian history, a prolific author, and a senior leader of B’nai B'rith International, published a piece about the Soviet restrictions on Jewish emigration in t
Singing between two worlds
Although post World War II Berlin is usually held up as the front line of the Cold War, it was precisely in Berlin where the “Iron Curtain” was porous. Lin Jaldati (pronounced “Yaldati”), a Dutch Jewish Communist Yiddish cabaret singer and dancer ... and Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivor, had been performing in Berlin since 1947. She gave her first wildly popular concert for displaced persons there in an American DP camp. Her popularity all ov…
A ndrew S loin . The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
In the late 1920s, one could disembark at the main rail station in Minsk and see the city’s name boldly marked in four languages: Belorussian, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish. At the time, it was the only major European city to mark public space in Yiddish and the only Eastern European city where one could write addresses on postcards and letters in Yiddish, certain they would be delivered. These would be signs that Belorussia in the 1920s went thro…
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