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Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words. Selected Writings Newly Translated Into English

Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words. Selected Writings Newly Translated Into English

Smith, Mark L.

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YiddishGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

ISBN13: 9798897830725
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Newly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European Jewry.


In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the Yiddish historians who helped to uncover the history of East-European Jews. Before the Holocaust, their mission was to discover and present the formative history of a living people for an audience of educated lay leaders, drawing where possible on Jewish sources of information, in order to help build and fortify a Yiddish-speaking nation. After the Holocaust, their mission became to console its surviving remnant with information about the struggle to survive under German occupation. This book makes Yiddish writings by these historians available in English for the first time, with translations by historian Mark L. Smith.

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