Yiddish in the Contemporary World: Paper of the first Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish.
Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 1999. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, x, 154 pp., index. Fine. Item #20311
ISBN: 1900755335
Articles are "Between Town and Gown: The Institutionalization of Yiddish at Israeli Universities," Avraham Novershtern, "Yiddish Studies and the Jewish Search for a Usable Past," David G. Roskies, "Defining the Yiddish Canon: Meditations on the Teaching of Yiddish Literature," Dafna Clifford, "Yiddish Studies in Germany Today," Marion Aptroot, "Is There a Place for Yiddish in Poland's Jewish Revival?" Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, "Soviet Yiddish Literature of the 1960s-80s and its Russian Translations," Mikhail Krutikov, "The Post-1945 Klezmer Revival," Walter Salmen, "Has the 'Golden Chain' Ended? Problems of Continuity in Yiddish Writing," Gennady Estraikh, "Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union since 1989: A Statistical-Demographic," Mark Tolts.
Price: $39.95