Oyfn sheydveg. Issue 1, 1939 (April) / edited, annotated, and introduced by Joshua M. Karlip ; translated by Yankl Salant and Joshua M. Karlip.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karlip, Joshua M., 1971- editor, translator.

Salant, Yankl, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur ; Bd. 8.

Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur = Archive of Jewish history and culture, 2566-6657 ; Band/Volume 8

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Oyfn Shaydveg.

Yiddish periodicals--France--20th century.

Yiddish periodicals.

Yiddish periodicals--France.

Yiddish periodicals--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

649 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : ISD, 2023.

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2023]

Language Note:

Journal translated into English, followed by original Yiddish ; added text in English.

Summary:

"In 1939, a new Yiddish journal was published in Paris under the name Oyfn sheydveg (At the Crossroads). The Authors, primarily Eastern European emigřs, embarked on a quest for an intellectually appropriate response to the political events unfolding before their eyes. Many contributors who were active two decades earlier as Diaspora Nationalists in diverse Eastern European Jewish political parties and institutions now explored new avenues. These included Zionism and Territorialism, but also a return to religious tradition and even to a pre-modern "ghetto life." Unlike hardly any other literary document, Oyfn sheydveg sheds light on the profound crisis of these Jewish intellectuals and on the conclusions they drew in the face of the looming catastrophe." -- back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783525302361

3525302363

OCLC:

1427153210

Publisher Number:

99995777310