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Yiddish Transformed: Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

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Yiddish Transformed

Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914

Nathan Cohen

Translated by Rebecca Wolpe

431 pages, 7 illus., 25 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-966-6 $179.00/£132.00 / Hb / Published (June 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-967-3 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800739666


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As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern society. Author Nathan Cohen explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as personal reflections of reading experiences.

Nathan Cohen is Associate Professor and director of the Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and associated editor of Yad Vashem Studies. His research focuses on East European Jewish cultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries, Yiddish book history and history of reading, and modern Yiddish literature. He is the author of Books, Writers and Newspapers: The Jewish Cultural Center in Warsaw, 1918-1942 (Magnes Press, 2003), which was published in Hebrew and translated into Polish.

Subject: Jewish StudiesLiterary Studies
Area: Central/Eastern Europe


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