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Yiddish : a global culture : bold lives, boundless creativity / David Mazower ; with an essay by David G. Roskies.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PJ5113 .M39 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mazower, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Modern--Jewish influences--Exhibitions.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Jews--Civilization--Exhibitions.
- Jews.
- Jewish nationalism--Exhibitions.
- Jewish nationalism.
- Jewish way of life--Exhibitions.
- Jewish way of life.
- Yiddish language--Exhibitions.
- Yiddish language.
- Yiddish literature--Exhibitions.
- Yiddish literature.
- Civilization, Modern--Jewish influences.
- Jews--Civilization.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages : illustrations (one folded) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Massachusetts : Yiddish Book Center, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture--its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. This landmark exhibition catalog offers a panoramic view of Yiddish: A Global Culture to the general reader, placing the transnational story of Yiddish within broader world history. The 344 full-color pages include an eight-page gatefold of "Yiddishland," the exhibition's 60-foot mural, along with hundreds of stunning reproductions of artworks, rare artifacts, and other key exhibits. With illuminating introductory essays and a timeline highlighting the iconic figures, breakout creative masterpieces, and controversies of the Yiddish world, this volume brings to dramatic life the significance of one remarkable civilization and its ongoing legacy."--Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Susan Bronson
- Curator's introduction / by David Mazower
- Speaking for Yiddish / by David G. Roskies
- The Yiddishland Mural
- Expanding horizons
- Bestsellers
- Women's voices
- Peretz's Salon
- Theater
- Hirshbein's trunk
- Soviet Yiddish
- Modernism
- Holocaust
- Music
- Typewriters
- Celebrities
- Press & politics
- Postwar
- Contemporary
- Timeline of modern Yiddish culture
- Further reading
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- "This catalogue is published in conjuction with 'Yiddish: A Global Culture', the Yiddish Book Center's permanent exhibition."--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9798990998070
- OCLC:
- 1547762776
- Publisher Number:
- 90103575991
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