{"product_id":"yiddish-and-the-creation-of-soviet-jewish-culture-1918-1930-paperback-9780521104647","title":"Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture; 1918–1930 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521104647","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e1918–1930\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores the ways in which Jews were part of, not apart from, both the Soviet system and Jewish history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Shneer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521104647, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 5 b\/w illus.  10 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Jews in eastern Europe.  It will appeal to readers in the fields of Russian, Jewish and cultural studies.  It could also interest people delving into the cultural aspects of the Jewish past.\" - Allan Laine Kagedan, Carleton University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eYiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture gives voice to the activists empowered by the state to create a Soviet Jewish national culture. These activists were striving for a national revolution to create a new culture for Jews to identify as Jews on new, secular, Soviet terms. This book explores the ways in which Jews were part of, not apart from, both the Soviet system and Jewish history. Soviet Jewish culture worked within contemporary Jewish national and cultural trends and simultaneously participated in the larger project of propagating the Soviet state and ideology. Soviet Jewish activists were not nationalists or Soviets, but both at once. David Shneer addresses some of the painful truths about Jews' own implication and imbrication in the Soviet system and inserts their role in twentieth-century Jewish culture into the narrative of Jewish history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Soviet nationalities policies and the making of the Soviet Yiddish Intelligentsia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ideology and Jewish language politics: How Yiddish became the national language of Soviet Jewry\u003cbr\u003e 3. Modernising Yiddish\u003cbr\u003e 4. Who owns the means of cultural production? The Soviet Yiddish publishing industry of the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 5. Engineers of Jewish souls: Soviet Yiddish writers envisioning the Jewish past, present and future\u003cbr\u003e 6. Becoming revolutionary: Izi Kharik and the question of aesthetics, politics and ideology\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. How does the story end?\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Judaism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Judaism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Judaism%20%5BHRJ%5D%22\"\u003eHRJ\u003c\/a\u003e], 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913155338520,"sku":"9780521104647","price":37.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521104647i.jpg?v=1694975998","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/yiddish-and-the-creation-of-soviet-jewish-culture-1918-1930-paperback-9780521104647","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}