Transatlantic Russian Jewishness

Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Gennady Estraikh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2020
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-363-6 (ISBN)

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labour movement. They formed the milieu of the hugely successful daily Forverts (Forward). This book focuses on the newspaper's reaction to the political developments in the home country.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the hugely successful daily Forverts (Forward), established in New York in April 1897. Its editorial columns and bylined articles-many of whose authors, such as Abraham Cahan and Sholem Asch, were household names at the time-both reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of the readership. Most pages of this book are focused on the newspaper's reaction to the political developments in the home country. 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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	1-64469-363-1 / 1644693631
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-363-6 / 9781644693636
Zustand	Neuware