YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture : Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. 'Language raised to the level of a political factor': Yiddish scholarship; 2. 'The idea of the institute is already ripe': the founding and first stages of YIVO, 1924?5; 3. 'From the folk, for the folk, with the folk': academic work, 1925?32; 4. 'The capital of Yiddishland': the geography of Jewish culture, 1925?33; 5. 'To forge intellectual weapons for our people!': scholarship in times of crisis, 1931?9; Epilogue: from Vilna to New York; Conclusion.