1929 :Mapping the Jewish World ( Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History )

Publication subTitle :Mapping the Jewish World

Publication series :Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Author: Diner Hasia  

Publisher: NYU Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781479878253

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814720219

Subject: K712.8 National Shi

Keyword: 革命史,社会学

Language: ENG

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Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches.  Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestin

Chapter

2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads

3 The Stalinist “Great Break” in Yiddishland

4 Permanent Transit: Jewish Migration during the Interwar Period

5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929

6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929: The Case of OZE-TOZ and the JDC

7 Territorialism and the ICOR “American Commission of Scientists and Experts” to the Soviet Far East

PART II: LOCAL STORIES

8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations

9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America

10 When the Local Trumps the Global: The Jewish World of São Paulo, Brazil, 1924–1940

PART III: LITERATURE

11 Patterning a New Life: American Jewish Literature in 1929

12 David Vogel: Married Life 1929

13 Radical Conservatism: Bashevis’s Dismissal of Modernism

14 Desire, Destiny, and Death: Fantasy and Reality in Soviet Yiddish Literature around 1929

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