Defining the Yiddish nation : the Jewish folklorists of Poland / Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman

Author: Gottesman, Itzik Nakhmen
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2003]
Copyright Date: ©2003
Physical Description: xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Series

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Contents

Part I. Zamlers of Warsaw. Almi, Vanvild, and Lehman -- Graubard and Prilutski -- Hershele, Kipnis, Elzet, and Zlotnik -- Part II. An ethnographic vision emerges. S. Ansky Vilne Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society -- Part 3. The culmination: YIVO Ethnographic Commission. The 1920s -- The 1930s -- Conclusion: The Jewish folklorist and the Yiddish nation.

Subject(s)

Jewish folklorists—Poland—Warsaw—History—20th century
Jewish folklorists—Lithuania—Vilna—History—20th century
Jewish nationalism—Europe, Eastern—History—20th century
Yiddish language—Political aspects—Europe, Eastern
Yiddish imprints—Collectors and collecting—Europe, Eastern
Folk literature, Yiddish—Publishing—Europe, Eastern

ISBN

0814326692

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-231) and index.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment; 20045.

Endowment Note

Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment

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