(2020). EEJA in Action: Excerpt from Sh. An-sky’s In shtrom, pages 54–56. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 21-23.

(2020). EEJA in Action: “The Development of the Jewish People Over the Last 100 Years” by Yakov Leshchinsky. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 157-242.

(2020). Hasidic art and the Kabbalah. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 244-246.

(2020). Hasidic Commentary on the Torah. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 246-248.

(2020). Hasidism: key questions / Historical Atlas of Hasidism, cartography by Waldemar Spallek. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 252-255.

(2020). How Should Hasidism be Studied? Contemporary Answers to an Old Question. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 255-258.

(2020). Friedrich Feigl, 1884-1965. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 263-266.

ABSTRACT Yiddish culture developed in Argentina within the context of a self-perception that figured Buenos Aires as a marginal and peripheral locale on the global Yiddish map. Against this backdrop, Argentine Yiddish culturalists argued for the strengthening of local Yiddish culture with a goal of elevating Buenos Aires's status within the international hierarchies of Yiddish culture. Buenos Aires

(2020). Hasidic studies: essays in history and gender. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 248-250.

(2020). EEJA in Action: “Against Your Will You’re a Jew” (1909) East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 75-77.

ABSTRACT A Yiddishist cultural organization, the Kultur-lige was founded in Kiev in 1918 on the principle of umparteyishkeyt (non-partisanship). After successfully working in several cultural fields, even in the midst of revolution and civil war in Ukraine, it was coopted by Soviet loyalists, so its leadership relocated to Warsaw. In a manifesto published there in Spring 1921, the organization announced

ABSTRACT The trajectory of Moyshe Kulbak's biography (1896–1937), drawing him from small town to big city, mirrors that of many in his generation. The image of the city in tension with that small town, or rather its replacement – nature – haunts so much of his greatest work. The urban dimension of Kulbak's work is both inescapable and tantalizingly complex. This essay analyzes the first of these works

(2020). Ada Rapoport-Albert, Hasidim ve-Shabeta'im, anashim ve-nashim [Studies in Hasidism, Sabbatianism and Gender] East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 250-252.

(2020). Comic books, graphic novels and the Holocaust. Beyond Maus. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 261-263.

(2020). Ada Rapoport-Albert: In Memoriam. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 259-260.

(2020). Yiddish in the City. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 1-5.

ABSTRACT The neglected-but-popular Yiddish humorist Tashrak (penname of Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin) offers not just an opportunity to discover understudied aspects of the Jewish urban experience and modern Yiddish culture, but also allows us to tap into a less refined level of beliefs, behavior, judgments and attitudes of Yiddish-speaking Jews in America. Tashrak wittily conveyed to his readers a comforting

ABSTRACT This article examines debates in Poland since the 1860s concerning Jews’ naming practices and attempts to resolve the practical and social problems they engendered. Polemics within the Jewish press in Poland, particularly in Warsaw’s Yiddish dailies, reveal competing conceptions of what constitutes an authentic and socially appropriate Jewish name. They also reflect changing perceptions of

ABSTRACT Scholars have long posited a connection between the emergence of Jewish historical consciousness and the “new Jewish politics” of the period 1881–1917. They have largely neglected, however, the many popular Yiddish-language histories that appeared during this time. These popular histories – nearly all of them printed in Warsaw and dedicated to the topic of “world history” – were sold in the

ABSTRACT In his novella In shtrom (In the Stream), Sh. An-sky depicts the complexities of the 1905 revolution for Jews through representation of the physical spaces of the city, especially the city park that becomes the central location for the workers' organizations. This article investigates how the novella uses representations of the “lived Jewish space” of the city park to further the cause of

(2020). Hasidism: An EEJA Forum. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 243-243.

ABSTRACT The city of Kiev was an inexhaustible source of material for Sholem Aleichem’s prolific writings in various genres. The imaginary city of Yehupets functions in his writing as a transitional space between the traditional shtetl and the modern city. The insecurity of Jewish residence in the city created a sense of anxiety which is a defining feature of Sholem Aleichem’s characters and was partly

(2020). Czech and Slovak Listings: 2015, 2016, and 2017. East European Jewish Affairs: Vol. 50, Yiddish in the City, pp. 267-271.

The Jewish leadership in Romanian territories during World War II sought to change antisemitic legislation, stop deportations, and ensure the survival of the deportees in the camps and ghettos. Unf...

Jewish Sonderkommando's handwritten notes – found among the earth and ashes – are key documents of Holocaust history. But their degree of preservation is poor. Digital technology comes to the rescu...

ABSTRACT Jews, unlike Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Germans, did not pose a direct, irredentist threat to interwar Polish territorial integrity. They were not a territorially concentrated group with border revision claims against the Polish state, nor was a neighboring government prepared to intervene on their behalf. In this sense, Jews presented the least tangible threat to Polish national security

ABSTRACT This paper examines references to Jews in the texts produced within the framework of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) national movement in Habsburg Galicia during the 1830s and 1840s. Looking at literary texts, journalism, correspondence, and minutes produced by the Ruthenian activists, the paper gauges them for “antisemitic sentiments.” This paper offers the first systematic study of antisemitism

ABSTRACT In 1967, after the defeat of Poland's Arab allies in the Six-Day War, Poland broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. The government of the Netherlands agreed to represent Israel's interests in Poland from 1967 to 1990. One of the most important duties in the initial period involved the protection of the Israeli ambassador under diplomatic immunity. The activities to be performed for Israel

A corner of the vanished world of Galician Jewry emerges from 104 postcards brought to America from Poland by the central figures of this family collection—Jacob and Matylda Schiff Sicherman. World War 1 is central to the story: Jacob served in the Austro-Hungarian army, while Matylda coped with two small children amid the uncertainties of war. Discussion of the cards' languages—German, Polish, Yiddish

ABSTRACT This article emphasizes Esperanto's imperial Russian origins as an essential frame for understanding the larger history of Esperanto and its creator, L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917). Despite Esperanto's global popularity in the early twentieth century, historians have little explored the history of this international auxiliary language and the utopian philosophical principles that Zamenhof invested

ABSTRACT Debora Vogel (1900–1942) helped develop modernism in Lviv in the interwar period. As a philosopher and writer, she was able to make connections between the dominant Polish school of philosophical logic (the so-called Lviv-Warsaw School) and the artistic circles in Lviv, to which Bruno Schulz, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Leon Chwistek belonged. Inspired by Cubism and Surrealism, but also

[T]he Jews are waning in the collective historical sense; they are losing in many cases the daily aspect of practical life, a sense for the historical problems and duties of their birth society... Therefore, we Jews, as it is said, do not have an historical orientation and we have become, as pertains to our collective identity, the subject of endless philosophical and sociological investigation. We

Lenoe, Matthew. “Fear, Loathing, Conspiracy: The Kirov Murder as Impetus for Terror.” In The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence Under Stalin, edited by James Harris, 195–215. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Petrov, N., and K. V. Skorkin. Kto rukovodil NKVD, 1934–1941: Spravochnik. Moscow: Zveni’ia, 1999. Pohl, Dieter. “The Holocaust in Ukraine: History, Historiography, and Memory.” In Stalin

ABSTRACT The article is concerned with three fictional works by the Soviet writer Masha Rol’nikaite: Tri vstrechi (Three Encounters, 1970), Privykni k svetu (Get Used to the Light, 1974), and Dolgoe molchanie (A Long Silence, 1981). It discusses how these texts fit within Soviet memorial culture of World War II. Rol’nikaite is used to illustrate the difficulties of commemorating the Holocaust in Soviet

ABSTRACT During World War II, literary translation provided one of the few ways in which Hebrew readers living in Mandatory Palestine could encounter “there,” war-torn Europe. From Zusman Segalovitsh’s There … to Avraham Shlonsky’s Poems of the Times, Hebrew translations of Yiddish poetry and prose grapple with the horrors of war and the legacy of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. These texts reveal conscious

ABSTRACT In July/August 1946, American psychologist David Pablo Boder visited displaced persons (DP) camps in France, Switzerland, and Germany, where he recorded audio-interviews with recent concentration camps inmates. In 1948, Boder proposed for publication a selection of interviews recorded verbatim, together with a brief historical survey and a detailed analysis of one of the interviews from his

ABSTRACT The article proposes a new approach to reconstructing post-Holocaust Soviet Jewish identity and culture through the concept of the Soviet Jewish bookshelf as the basis of Soviet Jews’ makeshift Jewish heritage. Using Michael Rothberg’s notion of “multidirectional memory,” it argues that the post-Holocaust tasks of bearing witness to the destruction and of preserving the Jewish remnant gave

ABSTRACT In 1938, nearly 200,000 Jews lived in Austria. Within four years, only about 7,000 Jews remained. One of those 7,000 was my grandmother, Rosa Weinberger. My grandfather was a non-Jewish resistance fighter, and together they had a son - my father, Peter - in 1943, born shortly after her family was transported to Auschwitz. My grandmother and my father survived the war hiding in Upper Austria

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on two collections of immediate post-Holocaust Yiddish songs: Mima’amakim: folkslider fun lagers un getos in poyln, compiled by Yehuda Eismann in Bucharest in April/May 1945, a copy of which recently appeared in a private collection in Sydney, Australia and song session recordings made by Dr. David Boder in displaced persons (DP) camps in 1946, archived in the United States

ABSTRACT The article explores a community that, in large part did not experience the atrocities of the Holocaust, but were nevertheless affected by it. The personal and communal impact of the Holocaust found its expression in a number of cultural ventures. Drawing on previously unused archival material from the Finnish Jewish Archives (found at the National Archives of Finland) and the YIVO Archives

The title of Gerben Zaagsma’s new book Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War hardly does justice to the scope of this work. His original and well researched study ...

ABSTRACT The trial of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC) lasted many days and resulted in eight volumes of transcripts. It was, in effect, an extended conversation between and among 15 – later 14 – defendants and the presiding judge, with a few minor contributions from the other two judges. This paper proposes to treat the language of that conversation as a linguistic phenomenon, looking for

ABSTRACT In this paper, I read the Yiddish author David Bergelson’s statements at his secret trial through the lens of his own earlier fiction about Soviet justice, especially his novel Judgment. I examine Bergelson’s self-fashioning as a Jewish writer and how he uses his own Jewish background as a justification for his failures as a Soviet person. I offer some contextualization of Bergelson’s statements

“invasion” and the establishment of the Yiddish language press in the Kingdom of Poland. The relationship between Poles and Jews was already aggravated and the Litvaks only became the scapegoats for both Poles and assimilated Jews who recognized that the assimilationist ideal had failed. The author’s most original contribution is centered on the question of the Litvaks’ identity during the discussed

ABSTRACT A large share of Russian/Soviet Jews, especially among younger cohorts, are descendants of intermarriage. In this essay, I reflect on the implications of the built-in ambivalence of these mixed ethnics, comparing their identity qualms and social strategies in their native Russia and after migration to Israel. My analysis draws upon participant observation and interviews conducted in Moscow

ABSTRACT The nineteenth century saw the beginning of modern historical research and methodology as well as intense development of historical thought in the Russian Empire. This century was also marked by the emergence of the Haskalah, which reached its peak in Russia in the 1860s and introduced a new area of scholarship – Wissenschaft des Judentums, or Hokhmat Israel. It included, inter alia, research

ABSTRACT The essay is a close analysis of the text of the 1952 secret trial of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC). The trial was an occasion of high drama in which many of the participants, facing death, responded with speeches and spontaneous outbursts that could not serve as any imaginable defense, but constituted a moral evaluation of their lives. This behavior was much unlike

With her book, Nepokrades! Nalady a postoje slovenske spolecnosti k židovske otazce, 1938–1945, Hana Kubatova makes an impressive and important contribution to the growing literature on the complic...

ABSTRACT The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC), established in the early phase of the Soviet-Nazi war as a propaganda unit, gradually developed links with foreign Jewish organizations and began to act as a body taking responsibility for Soviet Jewish citizens’ interests. The turning point in the JAFC's destiny was the 1943 trip of its top representatives, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer, to the

Cichopek-Gajraj, Anna. Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Gross, Jan T. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Gross, Jan T. Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. New York: Random House, 2006. Gross, Jan T., and Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Altman, Ilya, and Leonid Terushkin, eds. Sokhrani moi pis’ma. Sbornik pisem i dnevnikov evreev perioda Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny. 4 vols. Moscow: Tsentr i Fond “Kholokost,” 2007–16. Chervinsky, Julie, Aaron Kreiswirth, Leonid Reines, and Zvi Gitelman, eds. Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Stories of Soviet Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army During WWII. Vol. 1. New York: Blavatnik Archive

What is the Russian-Jewish Avant-Garde? How can it be defined in recent scholarly bibliography? The suggestive Jewish element in Russian Modernism was always, quite heavily (and at times playfully), pronounced. The term, then, represents an umbrella concept that unites both currents within the Russian Jewish community, the religious and the secular, in the perspective of its tortuous history. Secular

ABSTRACT The article proposes a model for analyzing the utterances of Jewish nonconformism in the late-Soviet Russian literature, based on Michel Foucault’s theory of fearless speech and Eric Gans’ theory of the origins of culture. The utterances of nonconformism transform an asymmetrical conflict into symmetrical nonvictimary relations, in which a new, supposedly real identity of a figure is revealed

ABSTRACT In this article, Ann Komaromi reads late Soviet Jewish culture in Leningrad in terms of the “two worlds” Jewish activists negotiated: official and unofficial, Soviet/Russian and Jewish, present and past, etc. While the public rhetoric of the struggle for Soviet Jewry suggested dramatic binaries of death and salvation that resonate with the eschatological extremes of the “Petersburg text,”

Janicka, Elżbieta, and Tomasz Żukowski. Przemoc filosemicka? Nowe polskie narracje o Żydach po 2000. Warszawa: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, 2016. Koczanowicz, Leszek. Politics of Dialogue: Non-consensual Democracy and Critical Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Lassner, Phillys, and Lara Trubowitz, Antisemitism and Philosemistism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries:

ABSTRACT This article is a first-hand report of a participant and leader of a number of underground initiatives within the “refuseniks’” community which aimed to encourage Jewish studies. These underground initiatives involved seminars (scholarly as well as public), excursions through Jewish historical sites, and the publication of a samizdat journal. In short, these initiatives sought to recover and

Mundek and learned of his fate after the war. The edition ends with an annex entitled Yizkor. The lament was written in Polish in the summer of 1943, while Auerbach was hiding on the “Aryan side.” It was never part of the Ringelblum Archive, but readers can see its origins in the loose notes regarding the Great Deportation. In Szymaniak’s opinion, Yizkor completes Auerbach’s writings. This edition

Due to the volume of materials published in Russian that may be of potential interest to EEJA readers, many of which are geared more to a general rather than a specialist audience, brief summaries have been provided for selected scholarly titles, followed by lists of additional titles without summaries. Titles that have been reviewed or are in the process of being reviewed for EEJA are marked with

ABSTRACT With remarkable consistency, the history of Jewish migration westward from Eastern Europe has been narrated and analyzed as the outcome of interaction between a familiar triad of forces: first, a population of immigrants whose vibrant religious practice and confrontational politics led to conflict with the pre-existing communal leaders and institutions; second, an acculturated community of

The heroes of this book are the rabbis of small and medium-sized communities in eastern Europe. Who were these rabbis? What were their training processes? Did they get their job because of their scholastic or rhetorical skills, because of their family ties, or because they had the capital to buy this position? Did they win “permanence” or was the threat of dismissal constantly hovering over their heads