Yiddish speaking immigrants formed the milieu of the hugely successful socialist daily Forverts (Forward). Its editorial columns and bylined articles reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of its readership. Profound admiration of Russian literature and culture did not mitigate the writers¿ criticism of the czarist and Soviet regimes.
Yiddish speaking immigrants formed the milieu of the hugely successful socialist daily Forverts (Forward). Its editorial columns and bylined articles reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of its readership. Profound admiration of Russian literature and culture did not mitigate the writers¿ criticism of the czarist and Soviet regimes.
Gennady Estraikh is a Clinical Professor at New York University. He received a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1996, and has worked at the Oxford Institute of Yiddish Studies and London University. He is Director of the Shvidler Project for the History of the Jews of the Soviet Union at NYU, and Senior Scholar at the Moscow Higher School of Economics.
Inhaltsangabe
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. World War I The Collapse of the Socialist International The Anti-Russian Syndrome The Zimmerwald Conference The Phantom of Internationalism The Effect of the War Debates Chapter 2. The 1917 Revolutions Russia Can Be Loved Joys and Problems The Bolshevik Revolution The Split Chapter 3. Cultural Debates A Letter from Waco Advocates and Critics of Yiddish Education Cahan s Summing Up Chapter 4. Raphael Abramovitch s Menshevik Voice in the Forverts In the Vortex of Revolution Between Two Internationals Communists Most Hated Menshevik The Moscow Trial of 1931 Chapter 5. The Outpost in Berlin The Bureau Jacob Lestschinsky David Bergelson The End of Yiddish Berlin Chapter 6. Jews on the Land Palestine or Crimea? Zalman Wendroff s Accounts Abraham Cahan s Soviet Journey Sholem Asch An Unwanted Guest Chapter 7. Between Hate and Hope Challenges of the Time The Stalin Constitution Birobidzhan Chapter 8. World War II Exit from Europe The Soviet Delegation Back to the Tradition Epilogue Bibliography
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. World War I The Collapse of the Socialist International The Anti-Russian Syndrome The Zimmerwald Conference The Phantom of Internationalism The Effect of the War Debates Chapter 2. The 1917 Revolutions Russia Can Be Loved Joys and Problems The Bolshevik Revolution The Split Chapter 3. Cultural Debates A Letter from Waco Advocates and Critics of Yiddish Education Cahan s Summing Up Chapter 4. Raphael Abramovitch s Menshevik Voice in the Forverts In the Vortex of Revolution Between Two Internationals Communists Most Hated Menshevik The Moscow Trial of 1931 Chapter 5. The Outpost in Berlin The Bureau Jacob Lestschinsky David Bergelson The End of Yiddish Berlin Chapter 6. Jews on the Land Palestine or Crimea? Zalman Wendroff s Accounts Abraham Cahan s Soviet Journey Sholem Asch An Unwanted Guest Chapter 7. Between Hate and Hope Challenges of the Time The Stalin Constitution Birobidzhan Chapter 8. World War II Exit from Europe The Soviet Delegation Back to the Tradition Epilogue Bibliography
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