1929 : mapping the Jewish world / edited by Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diner, Hasia R.

Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ)

Series:

Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--History--20th century.

Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Jews--Intellectual life--20th century.

Jews--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--United States--Charities--History--20th century.

Jews--Migrations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nineteen twenty nine

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and CollectionsThe year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other—from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish—regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally

2. Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads

3. The Stalinist “Great Break” in Yiddishland

4. Permanent Transit

5. Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929

6. Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929

7. Territorialism and the ICOR “American Commission of Scientists and Experts” to the Soviet Far East

8. From Universal Values to Cultural Representations

9. The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America

10. When the Local Trumps the Global

11. Patterning a New Life

12. David Vogel

13. Radical Conservatism

14. Desire, Destiny, and Death

Index

Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-7825-1

OCLC:

854974603