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A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland

A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland

Turner, Ri J.
Glasser, Paul
Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Lucyna

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Jewish History and Memory, Book 13

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3631803877
ISBN13: 9783631803875
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Feb 24 2020
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central protagonist of the book, a Yiddish writer Dovid (David) Sfard, is just a pretext to show a full range of Jewish Communist activists (such as Hersh Smolar, Bernard Mark, Szymon Zachariasz, etc.) and their life choices. This relatively small milieu influenced and controlled the Jewish life in post-war Poland until the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968. Their lives, reconstructed thanks to sources in several languages, make up a panorama of Jewish Communist experience in 20th-century Eastern Europe.

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