Yiddish Civilization
The Rise And Fall of a Forgotten Nation
Kriwaczek, Paul
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world. By its late-medieval heyday, this economically successful, intellectually adventurous, and self-aware society stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Kriwaczek traces, too, the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia, and highlights fresh offshoots in the New World.
Combining family anecdote, travelogue, original research, and a keen understanding of Yiddish art and literature, Kriwaczek gives us an exceptional portrait of a culture which, though nearly extinguished, has an influential radiance still.
BOOK REVIEWS
A highly enjoyable and surprisingly positive account of how Jewish culture helped shape European history and vice versa. The Sunday Telegraph
An outstanding survey. . . . Kriwaczek tracks the origins, flowering, and destruction of this unique, vibrant, and tenacious culture with a fine mixture of pride, regret, and eloquence. Booklist
Evocative and precise. . . . An enjoyable narrative that captures the intricacies of a very complicated history.Publishers Weekly
Informative and very entertaining . . . conjures up and re-creates baroque images and marvelous set pieces of feverish activity, long lost towns and shtetls [as well as] wonderful pictures of lost communities of Jews.The Irish Times
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400033772
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400033775
Dewey Decimal: 909
Library of Congress: oc2007054718
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 400
Paper Weight (lb): .82 lb
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