Building and Consoling a Nation HARDBACK 9798897831289

Name: Building and Consoling a Nation HARDBACK 9798897831289
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

Building and Consoling a NationThe Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words. Selected Writings Newly Translated into English\nAuthor(s): Mark L. Smith, Samuel H. Kassow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9798897831289, 979-8897831289\nSynopsis\nNewly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European Jewry.\n\nIn 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.