| Contents |
The Czernowitz conference: contexts, ironies, and the verdict of Jewish history / Ezra Mendelson -- A tale of two photographs: Nathan Birnbaum, the election of 1907, and the 1908 Yiddish language conference / Jess Olson -- Peretz's commitment to Yiddish in Czernowitz: a national caprice? / Marie Schumacher-Brunhes -- Mother tongue, Mame-loshn, and Kulturshprakh: the tension between populism and elitism in the language ideology of Noah Prylucki / Kalman Weiser -- Y.L. Peretz and the politics of Yiddish / Marc Caplan -- Reclaiming Czernowitz in Aharon Appelfeld's Flowers of darkness / Philip Hollander -- Dem Oyle regls tokhter: the poetic pilgrimage of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman / Leye Lipsky -- The painter as ethnographer: Maurycy Minkowski and the European Yiddish intelligentsia before World War I / Zachary M. Baker -- The success of the Czernowitz Yiddish conference: setting the agenda for Yiddish language planning in the twentieth century / Rakhmiel Peltz -- From Czernowitz to Paris: the International Yiddish culture congress of 1937 / Matthew Hoffman -- Yiddishism in Canadian garb / Rebecca Margolis -- The Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Archives, Toronto / David Birnbaum -- Mates Mieses's defense of the Yiddish language / Mordkhe Schaechter (Joshua A. Fogel, translator). |
