Description: Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 On the Politics of Yiddish Part 3 Politics, Ideology, and Scholarship Chapter 4 Yiddishism and Judaism Chapter 5 Yiddish language politics in the Ukraine (1930-1936) Chapter 6 What was going on at the 1935 Yivo Conference? Chapter 7 The Czernowitz Conference in retrospect Chapter 8 The politics of research on spoken Yiddish Part 9 Communities, Centres, and Cities Chapter 10 Yiddish socialist press in New York, 1880s-1920s Chapter 11 Yiddish in orthodox communities of Jerusalem Chapter 12 Shloyme Mikhoels and his theatre Chapter 13 Writers must eat: the New York City Yiddish Writers Group of the Work Progress Administration Chapter 14 Petticoat Lane and the North-West Passage (London, 1880-1940) Chapter 15 Art and politics: the case of the New York Artef Theatre (1925-1940) Part 16 Language, Folklore, and Literature Chapter 17 Zmires Purim--the third phase of Jewish carnavalistic folk-literature Chapter 18 Dovid Bergelson's Bam Dnieper: a passport to Moscow Chapter 19 Dovid Holfstein--our first wonder Chapter 20 The Aston corpus of Soviet Yiddish lexicon Chapter 21 A Vilna folklorist's collection: Structural analysis of Yiddish riddles Chapter 22 Mr Khauruchenka, Miss Shaihets, Mrs Hoika and others: the origin of some other unusual family names Chapter 23 List of contributors

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