Three cities of Yiddish

Titel: Three cities of Yiddish : St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow / edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Legenda, 2017
Umfang: 201 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Studies in Yiddish ; 15
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ISBN: 9781910887073 ; 1910887072

This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow at the crucial historical moment of the collapse of the Russian Empire, this volume examines the variety of Yiddish publishing, educational, literary, academic, and theatrical activities in the former imperial metropolises from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth century, and explores the representations of those cities in Yiddish literature.