YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Esther Kuznitz bilingual north Africa

north Africa

Sophie Tucker

sportswriters Murray Chass

violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

and against all odds

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Esther Kuznitz bilingual north AfricaThis book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti Semitism. From its headquarters in Vilna, Lithuania, YIVO tried to balance scholarly objectivity with its