Yiddish Civilisation The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

Name: Yiddish Civilisation The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
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ISBN: 9781400033775

ISBN-10: 1400033772

ISBN-13: 9781400033775

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Authors: Paul Kriwaczek

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Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world. By its late-medieval heyday, this economically successful, intellectually adventurous, and self-aware society stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Kriwaczek traces, too, the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia, and highlights fresh offshoots in the New World. Combining family anecdote, travelogue, original research, and a keen…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction



Bist a Yid?


Roots Schmoots!


Nostalgie de la Boue



The Jews of Rome


A Basket and a Truss of Hay



From the Mediterranean to the Baltic


As Strange as a Circumcised Unicorn


Sennan and Zippan



The Remaking of Western Europe


Charles's Elephant


New Borders, New Allegiances


Drang Nach Osten



At the Crossroads


In Every Castle a King


A Blessing Upon Mieszko, King of Poland



The New Yiddish World


The Language


The Literature


The Religion


The Scholarly Tradition



Political Consolidation


Landowners, Merchants, Artisans, Servants


At the Jewish Inn



The Reformation


Hussites


Luther


Now a Miracle Happened



The Yiddish Renaissance


Cracow


Prague


Dovid Gans



Wide Horizons


Wealth and Honour


The Great Divide



The Deluge


The Cossacks


Poverty and Disgrace



Decline...


Who Permits the Forbidden


The Holy Creed of Edom


The Famous Ba'al Shem Tov, May his Light Long Shine


Oppose them Strongly



...and Fall


The "Jewish Problem"


Words that Fall on us Like Lashes


Shakespearean Tragedy


Exodus



A Winter Flowering


Notes


Bibliography


Index