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Author Kuznitz, Cecile Esther

Title YIVO and the making of modern Jewish culture : scholarship for the Yiddish nation / Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Contents 1 -- "Language Raised to the Level of a Political Factor" 2 -- "The Idea of the Institute Is Already Ripe" 3 -- "From the Folk, For the Folk, With the Folk" 4 -- "The Capital of Yiddishland" 5 -- "To Forge Intellectual Weapons for Our People!" Epilogue -- From Vilna to New York
Summary This book is the first history of YIVO, an important center for Jewish culture and politics in the early twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject YIVO Institute for Jewish Research -- History
SUBJECT Yivo Institute for Jewish Research fast
Subject Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Intellectual life
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Jews -- Intellectual life
Lithuania -- Vilnius
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013038171
ISBN 9781139870696
1139870696
9781139013604
1139013602