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Issue17 / September 2020

Focus

Thinking Europe in Yiddish

edited by Marion Aptroot

Pariz. Yidish hant-bukh: veg-vayzer un firer, eds. A. Bekerman et al., (Paris: Naye Prese, 1937). Cover detail of the Yiddish language guidebook published for the World’s Fair in Paris.

  • Introduction by Marion Aptroot                                        
  • How, When, and Why Did Yiddish Become a Modern Culture? by David E. Fishman                                        
  • Marking Territory: A Flâneur’s Failure in I. L. Peretz’s Mayses by Marc Caplan                                        
  • “To Hell with Futurism, Too!”
    The Metamorphoses of Western and Eastern European Modernism in Yiddish Manifesto
    by Daria Vakhrushova                                        
  • An American in Shtetl: Seeing Yiddish Europe Through the Eyes of Molly Picon by Debra Caplan                                        
  • A Quest for Yiddishland: The 1937 World Yiddish Cultural Congress by Gennady Estraikh                                        

Research Paths

“Poor Jews! You Get Blamed for Everything!”
Hope and Despair in a Galician Yiddish Newspaper during the Revolutions of 1848–49*
Rebecca Wolpe                                        
The Buffer Zone: Ottoman Maskilim and their Austro-Hungarian Counterparts. A Case Study*
Tamir Karkason                                        

Editorial

  • Ten Years of Quest Guri Schwarz                                        

Discussion

Daniel Boyarin                                         Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Discussion by Luca Arcari Discussion by Daniel Barbu

Reviews

  • Susanne Theresia Kord Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
    Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
    Lisa Silverman                                        
  • Hana Kubátová, Jan Láníček (eds.) Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
    History and Memory
    Tim Corbett                                        
  • Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire (eds.) Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940
    Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
    Nimrod Luz                                        
  • Judith Lindenberg (ed.) Premiers savoirs de la Shoah
    Antoine Burgard                                        
  • Sara Yael Hirschhorn City on a Hilltop
    American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
    Caterina Bandini                                        
  • Michael Brenner Der lange Schatten der Revolution
    Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918 bis 1923
    Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
  • Irene Aue-Ben-David Deutsch-jüdische Geschichtschreibung im 20 Jahrhundert
    Zu Werk und Rezeption von Selma Stern
    Dominique Bourel                                        
  • Joshua Teplitsky Prince of the Press
    How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
    Mirjam Thulin                                        
  • Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.) The Holocaust and North Africa
    Piera Rossetto                                        
  • Cordelia Hess The Absent Jews
    Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
    Ingo Haar                                        

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Focus

  • Thinking Europe in Yiddish by Marion Aptroot                                        
  • How, When, and Why Did Yiddish Become a Modern Culture? by David E. Fishman                                        
  • Marking Territory: A Flâneur’s Failure in I. L. Peretz’s Mayses by Marc Caplan                                        
  • “To Hell with Futurism, Too!”
    The Metamorphoses of Western and Eastern European Modernism in Yiddish Manifesto
    by Daria Vakhrushova                                        
  • An American in Shtetl: Seeing Yiddish Europe Through the Eyes of Molly Picon by Debra Caplan                                        
  • A Quest for Yiddishland: The 1937 World Yiddish Cultural Congress by Gennady Estraikh                                        

Research Paths

  • “Poor Jews! You Get Blamed for Everything!”
    Hope and Despair in a Galician Yiddish Newspaper during the Revolutions of 1848–49*
    by Rebecca Wolpe                                        
  • The Buffer Zone: Ottoman Maskilim and their Austro-Hungarian Counterparts. A Case Study*
    by Tamir Karkason                                        

Discussion

Daniel Boyarin                                        
Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Discussion by Luca Arcari
Discussion by Daniel Barbu

Reviews

Susanne Theresia Kord Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
by Lisa Silverman                                        
Hana Kubátová, Jan Láníček (eds.) Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
History and Memory
by Tim Corbett                                        
Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire (eds.) Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940
Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
by Nimrod Luz                                        
Judith Lindenberg (ed.) Premiers savoirs de la Shoah by Antoine Burgard                                        
Sara Yael Hirschhorn City on a Hilltop
American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
by Caterina Bandini                                        
Michael Brenner Der lange Schatten der Revolution
Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918 bis 1923
by Ulrich Wyrwa                                        
Irene Aue-Ben-David Deutsch-jüdische Geschichtschreibung im 20 Jahrhundert
Zu Werk und Rezeption von Selma Stern
by Dominique Bourel                                        
Joshua Teplitsky Prince of the Press
How One Collector Built History's Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library
by Mirjam Thulin                                        
Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.) The Holocaust and North Africa by Piera Rossetto                                        
Cordelia Hess The Absent Jews
Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia
by Ingo Haar