Building and consoling a nation : The yiddish historians in their own words. selected writings newly translated into english. / Mark L Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Mark L.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Academic Studies Press, 2026.

Language Note:

English translations from the Yiddish.

Summary:

In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the "Yiddish historians" who helped to uncover the history of East-European Jews. Before the Holocaust, their mission was to discover and present the formative history of a living people for an audience of educated lay leaders, drawing where possible on Jewish sources of information, in order to help build and fortify a Yiddish-speaking nation. After the Holocaust, their mission became to console its surviving remnant with information about the struggle to survive under German occupation. This book makes Yiddish writings by these historians available in English for the first time, with translations by historian Mark L. Smith. The book also includes a revealing Conversation with Series Editor Michael Berenbaum and an informative foreword by Samuel Kassow.

Contents:

Part 1. Jewish Autonomy. Autonomy in Jewish History (1934) / by Simon Dubnow

Jewish Parliament in Lithuania and Belorussia in Its Legislative Activity, 1623–1721 (1928) / by Israel Sosis

Budget of the Council of the Four Lands in 1726 (1940) / by Raphael Mahler

Financial Collapse of the Central and Provincial Autonomy of the Jews in Old-Time Poland, 1650–1764 (1932) / by Ignacy Schiper

Central Representative Bodies of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, 1807–1816 (1938) / by Artur Eisenbach

Warsaw Kehila under the Leadership of Dr. Ludwik Natanson, 1871–1896 (1953) / by Jacob Shatzky

Jewish “Autonomy”: The Nazi-Imposed Jewish Councils (1949) / by Isaiah Trunk.

Part 2. On the Jewish Street. Yiddish Theater in the German and Slavic Ghettos during the Sixteenth Century (1927) / by Ignacy Schiper

The Structure of the Jewish Guilds in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1928) / by Mark Wischnitzer

Two Communities in One City: The Jews of Lemberg from Medieval to Modern Times (1930) / by Meir Balaban

Young Historians Circle in Warsaw, 1923–1939 (1967) / by Raphael Mahler

Varied Were the Ways (of Jewish Resistance against the Nazis) (1946) / by Mark Dworzecki

Wooden Synagogues in Poland before the Holocaust (1962) / by Rachel Wischnitzer

Soup Kitchen and the Yiddish Theater in the Warsaw Ghetto (1977) / by Rachel Auerbach.

Part 3. In the Non-Jewish World. Jewish-Christian Relations in Płock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1938) / by Isaiah Trunk

What Types of Taxes Did the Jews of Lublin Pay in the Former Independent Poland? (1930) / by Bela Mandelsberg

Jewish Home Industry in Old-Time Poland (1935) / by Emanuel Ringelblum

“New Settlements” in 1808: How Belorussian Jews Responded to the First Order to Settle in Agricultural Colonies in Russian Ukraine (1932) / by Simon Dubnow

Jewish Cantonists—Young Boys Recruited for Military Service in Tsarist Russia, 1828–1956 (1933) / by Saul Ginsburg, 1933

Antisemitism and Pogroms in Ukraine, 1917–1918: On the History of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations (1923) / by Elias Tcherikower

On the Causes of Jewish Defenselessness against the Nazis and the Strength of Jewish Resistance (1953) / by Isaiah Trunk.

Part 4. Yiddish Literature. Brantshpigl (Burning Mirror), 1596 - The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Woman in the Seventeenth Century (1926) / by Maks Erik

On the Sources of the Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), 1602 (1926) / by Israel Zinberg

Three Hundred Years of the Tsene-rene (Bible Stories for Women), 1616 (1928) / by Jacob Shatzky

Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1815): Hasidism and Yiddish Literary Creativity (1932) / by Shmuel Niger

On the History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Haskalah Period (1939) / by Meir Wiener

Four Unknown Yiddish Plays from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1930) / by Max Weinreich

Yiddish Literature under Nazi Occupation (1946) / by Nachman Blumental.

Part 5. Press, Post, Communications. Life and Language as Reflected by Yiddish Testimony in the Responsa Literature from the Beginning of the Fifteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1929) / by Zalman Rubashov

Jewish Postal Service in Tsarist Russia during the Early Nineteenth Century (1932) / by Saul Ginsburg,

First Yiddish Newspaper in the Russian Empire, Kol mevaser, and Its Time, 1862–72 (1913) / by Israel Zinberg

Attitude toward Yiddish of the Russian Authorities in Vilna during the 1860s: On the History of Yiddish Bookselling in Vilna (1929) / by Pinchas Kon

Ghettos and Concentration Camps Seeking Contacts: A Chapter of Jewish Resistance (1949) / by Mark Dworzecki

Unknown Letters by Zelig Kalmanovich in the Vilna Ghetto to Isaac Giterman in the Warsaw Ghetto (1983) / by Joseph Kermish

Inscriptions on Walls, Sacred Texts, and Other Books during the Holocaust (1966) / by Nachman Blumental.

Part 6. Education. Joseph Perl as a Pedagogical Leader and His School in Tarnopol 125 Years after Its Founding (1940) / by Philip Friedman

Yehuda-Leib Gordon as a Fighter for the Haskalah in Jewish Schools in Lithuania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1938) / by Nadzieja Jaffe

Rise of Yiddish Secular Schools in Poland during World War I (1947) / by Chaim-Solomon Kazdan

Jewish Schools in the Vilna Ghetto as Spiritual Resistance (1948) / by Mark Dworzecki

Jewish Vocational and Higher School System in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–42 (1949) / by Esther Goldhar-Mark

School System and Education for Holocaust Survivors in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (1948) / by Philip Friedman

Four Years of the Chair for Holocaust Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1963) / by Mark Dworzecki.

Part 7. Book Reviews. History of the Jews in Russia (1914) / Reviewed by Zelig Kalmanovich

Saul Ginsburg. Historical Works (1937) / Reviewed by Moyshe Shalit

Isaiah Trunk. The History of the Jews in Płock (1939) / Reviewed by A. Valdman

Jacob Shatzky. In the Shadow of the Past (1947) / Reviewed by Samuel Rollansky

Philip Friedman. Auschwitz (1950) / Reviewed by Julien Hirshaut

Mark Dworzecki. White Nights and Black Days: Jewish Camps in Estonia (1970) / Reviewed by Israel Kaplan

Nachman Blumental. Words and Sayings from the Holocaust Period (1981) / Reviewed by David Shtokfish.

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ISBN:

979-88-97830-73-2

OCLC:

1583175778