To browse Academia. Roni Masel [Mazal]. The journal Der Yid was the first Yiddish periodical officially tied to a Zionist body. This article follows the shared genealogy of early Zionism and diasporic nationalism as expressed in Der Yid, and offers a revision to common notions on Yiddish cultural and political revival around the turn of the twentieth century.
In contrast with a tendency to highlight a sharp divide between these movements, this article emphasizes the points of intimacy and convergence between the ostensibly opposing ideological and lingual choices of Hebraism-Zionism and Yiddishism-diasporism. Who is the ultimate imagined national readership and national collective of a Yiddish-language journal? By probing the populist, sentimentalist discourse that the journal produced, this article argues for a renewed evaluation of the presumably dichotomous constructions of Hebrew versus Yiddish, or Zionism versus diasporic nationalism.
Rebecca Margolis. Daniel Reiser , Marc Caplan. An introduction from the editors of the special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish. Note: This special issue is being released in two segments. Not all of the pieces mentioned in this introduction have yet been published.
Barry Trachtenberg. Kalman Weiser. The Encyclopaedia Judaica Macmillan Reference and Keter. Cecile E. Isaac L. David G.
Gennady Estraikh. Philip Hollander. Course Overview: At the turn of the 20 th century millions of Yiddish-speaking East European Jews arrived in America. Through study of the Yiddish literature and culture they produced, this course will give students insight into these immigrants' experience and their efforts to find a comfortable perch in the American landscape.
