Yivo and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation

Bibliographic Data

ID19939322
AuthorsCecile Esther Kuznitz (Bard College, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-04-21
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueYIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139013604
OpenAlexW4255660226
Open LibraryOL34501707M
ISBN9781139013604
LanguageEN
Citations received17

This book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti-Semitism. From its headquarters in Vilna, Lithuania, YIVO tried to balance scholarly objectivity with its commitment to the Jewish masses. Using newly recovered documents that were believed destroyed by Hitler and Stalin, Cecile Esther Kuznitz tells for the first time the compelling story of how these scholars built a world-renowned institution despite dire poverty and anti-Semitism. She raises new questions about the relationship between Jewish cultural and political work and analyzes how nationalism arises outside of state power

Diaspora · Institution · Jewish culture · Judaism · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · State (computer science) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Soviet and Russian History · Intellectual life · Jews · Lithuania

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