[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--announcing "Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective"

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

April 21, 2010

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:08:46 -0400
From: K Weiser <kweiser at yorku.ca>
Subject: Czernowitz at 100

Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical 
Perspective
ed. Joshua Fogel and Kalman Weiser, Lexington Books, 2010

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 
2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each 
chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the 
mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the 
Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. 
They assess the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 
1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held at Czernowitz, now known as 
Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of 
scholars re-examining Eastern European Jewish life, the successes and 
failures of the Yiddishist movement are examined. The contributors discuss 
how Yiddishism, fascinating example of language-based nationalism~Wshaped 
the political and cultural landscape of territorially dispersed Jews 
across Eastern Europe and the world during the twentieth century.

Contributors include:

Zachary Baker (Stanford University)
Phillip Hollander (University of Wisconsin)
Ezra Mendelsohn (Hebrew University)
David Birnbaum (Solomon and Nathan Birnbaum Archives, Toronto),
Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins)
Marie Brunhes (Universit de Lille III)
Jess Olson (Yeshiva University)
Linda Lipsky (York University)
Rakhmiel Peltz (Drexel University)
Rebecca Margolis (University of Ottawa)
Matthew Hoffman (Franklin and Marshall College)
Kalman Weiser (York University).

For more details, please see

http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739140698&thepassedurl=
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