Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930

Abstract

Introduction 1. Soviet nationalities policies and the making of the Soviet Yiddish Intelligentsia 2. Ideology and Jewish language politics: How Yiddish became the national language of Soviet Jewry 3. Modernising Yiddish 4. Who owns the means of cultural production? The Soviet Yiddish publishing industry of the 1920s 5. Engineers of Jewish souls: Soviet Yiddish writers envisioning the Jewish past, present and future 6. Becoming revolutionary: Izi Kharik and the question of aesthetics, politics and ideology Afterword. How does the story end? Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.