The rise of modern Yiddish culture / David E. Fishman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishman, David E., 1957- author.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yiddish language--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Yiddish language.

Yiddish language--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Yiddish language--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Yiddish language--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Politics and government.

Yiddishists--Europe, Eastern.

Yiddishists.

Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia--Social conditions--1945-1992.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Acting as an important historical archive for the Jews of eastern Europe, The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1925.

Contents:

Introduction: Writing a postwar history

Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity

Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice

National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery

A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha

The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák

Epilogue.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822973799

0822973790

OCLC:

887803571