1. The Question of Human Rights in American Yiddish Journalism: The Examples of Di tsukunft / Steven Cassedy -- 2. Socialism with a Jewish Face: The Origins of the Yiddish-Speaking Communist Movement in the United States, 1907-1923 / Tony Michels -- 3. Abraham Cahan's Travels in Jewish Homelands: Palestine in 1925 and the Soviet Union in 1927 / Daniel Soyer -- 4. Diaspora, Ethnicity and Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Birobidzhan Project / Henry Srebrnik -- 5. The Left Poalei Zion in Inter-War Poland / Samuel D. Kassow -- 6. The History of 'The Truth': Soviet Jewish Activists and the Moscow Yiddish Daily Newspaper / David Shneer -- 7. Metamorphoses of Morgn-frayhayt / Gennady Estraikh -- 8. Yiddish in Poland after 1945 / Eleonora Bergman -- 9. The Cult of Self-Sacrifice in Yiddish Anarchism and Saul Yanovsky's The First Years of Jewish Libertarian Socialism / Karen Rosenberg -- 10. Abraham Golomb's Integrated Jewishness / Thomas Soxberger -- 11. Inscribing the Yiddish Past: Inter-War Explorations of Old Yiddish Texts / Barry Trachtenberg -- 12. Soviet Literary Theory in the Search for a Yiddish Canon: The Case of Moshe Litvakov / Mikhail Krutikov -- 13. From Exile to Exile: Bergelson's Berlin Years / Dafna Clifford -- 14. Chaim Sloves and the Soviet Union: An Essay on the Jewish People in one of its Peregrinations / Annette Aronowicz -- 15. The Status of Yiddish in Jewish Educational Systems in Argentina and Mexico / Efraim Zadoff -- 16. The Image of Apartheid in South African Yiddish Prose Writing / Joseph Sherman