Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0753819031
ISBN 13
8601405706812
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
347
Subject
Ashkenazim -- Europe, Eastern -- History.; Yiddish language -- History;
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Abstract
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
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