LEADER 11754cam a2200781 i 4500001 283877 005 20240621235243.0 008 220506t20222022njuab b 001 0 eng 010 2021028272 015 GBC235781 |2bnb 020 9781978825451 |q(cloth) 020 1978825455 020 9781978825475 |q(epub) 020 1978825471 020 9781978825499 |q(pdf) 020 1978825498 020 9781978825468 |q(cloth) 020 1978825463 |q(cloth) 035 (OCoLC)on1257314664 035 283877 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dYDX |dDLC |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dBKL |dOCLCQ |dJ9U |dLHM 050 00 DS102.8 |b.T73 2022 100 1 Trachtenberg, Barry, |eauthor. 245 14 The Holocaust & the exile of Yiddish : |ba history of the Algemeyne entsiklopedye / |cBarry Trachtenberg. 246 30 Holocaust and the exile of Yiddish 246 30 History of the Algemeyne entsiklopedye 264 1 New Brunswick : |bRutgers University Press, |c[2022] 264 4 |c©2022 300 293 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-274) and index. 505 0 A Bible for the New Age: Berlin, 1930-1933 -- Man Plans, and Hitler Laughs: Paris, 1933-1940 -- Spinning the Historical Threads: New York, 1940-1966. 520 "The Nazi Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish is a history of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (General Encyclopedia, Berlin, Paris, & New York, 1932-1966), the only attempt to publish a comprehensive encyclopedia of universal knowledge in the Yiddish language. In the decade after World War I, the potential for Yiddish was seemingly limitless. The global number of speakers of Yiddish was estimated at between nine and ten million, with major communities in Poland, the Soviet Union, and the United States. But by the early 1930s, as Jews were becoming invested in their host states, a dramatic rise in antisemitism from the political right threatened their new status. Extreme nationalists sought to undo Jewish participation in civic life, limit Jewish migration and settlement, and contain - or even purge - Jews' political, economic, cultural, and racial influence. This combination of factors led many within the Yiddishist camp both to reassert their commitment to the language and to a distinct Jewish national identity, increasing the urgency for the Entsiklopedye's architects to embark upon their project. Uncertainty over the Jewish future began to be reflected in the Entsiklopedye itself. The volumes of 1936 and 1937 contain otherwise out-of-place monograph-length entries on the specifically Jewish topics of "Antisemitism" and "Land of Israel," presaging a shift away from general subjects and toward more specifically Jewish content. In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland cut the Entsiklopedye off from its major source of readers and trapped many of its contributors who were based there. Just as the second Yidn volume was being sent to subscribers in Spring 1940, Germany invaded France. Making matters even worse, the copies of the second Yidn volume were sent to the United States, and but most copies were lost at sea. A few volumes that had been sent via the regular mail arrived safely in New York, however. The encyclopedia's editors themselves fled and, after making a harrowing escape via Spain and Portugal, arrived in New York by late summer / early autumn 1940. With the end of World War II and as the enormity of the Nazi Holocaust was becoming understood, the editors decided that the Entsiklopedye should continue. The post-war Yidn volumes contain descriptive essays on Jewish life on the eve of the Holocaust, a study of Jewish life in the Americas, and the last two volumes (1964 and 1966) are historical overviews of the Holocaust. By the release of the final volume in 1966, few of the original editors of The Algemeyne Entsiklopedye were still alive. Many of the great Jewish scholars who contributed to the project had also passed. In the Foreword, the administrator of the Entsiklopedye Iser Goldberg outlined the task of future Jewish scholarship as one of creating a new corpus of work dedicated to the Holocaust. He declared that this project that once was to guide millions of Yiddish readers into the modern world was now dedicated to "the thousands of readers and subscribers in Jewish communities" with the much more modest goal of making "an important contribution to the growing khurbn [Holocaust] literature." By bringing this neglected and unique work of Jewish scholarship back into studies of modern Jewish history, Trachtenberg makes a significant contribution to current historiographical debates on the content and boundaries of Jewish knowledge in the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth-century. In large measure because of the lack of researchers able to work in the Yiddish language, the significance and history of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye has been overlooked, despite the fact that it was one of the great (and few) collaborative projects involving the twentieth century's most influential Jewish scholars. This monograph will inform recent scholarly discussions on the function of Yiddish before, during, and after World War II, on the extent to which Eastern European Jews turned away from Diaspora Nationalism on the eve of war, and to what degree Jews in the United States were "silent" in the decades following the Nazi Holocaust"-- |cProvided by publisher 520 "The Nazi Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish is a history of the Algemeyne Entsikopedye (General Encyclopedia, Berlin, Paris, & New York, 1932-1966), the only attempt to publish a comprehensive encyclopedia of universal knowledge in the Yiddish language. In the decade after World War I, the potential for Yiddish was seemingly limitless. The global number of speakers of Yiddish was estimated at between nine and ten million, with major communities in Poland, the Soviet Union, and the United States. But by the early 1930s, as Jews were becoming invested in their host states, a dramatic rise in antisemitism from the political right threatened their new status. Extreme nationalists sought to undo Jewish participation in civic life, limit Jewish migration and settlement, and contain - or even purge - Jews' political, economic, cultural, and racial influence. This combination of factors led many within the Yiddishist camp both to reassert their commitment to the language and to a distinct Jewish national identity, increasing the urgency for the Entsiklopedye's architects to embark upon their project. Uncertainty over the Jewish future began to be reflected in the Entsiklopedye itself. The volumes of 1936 and 1937 contain otherwise out-of-place monograph-length entries on the specifically Jewish topics of "Antisemitism" and "Land of Israel," presaging a shift away from general subjects and toward more specifically Jewish content. In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland cut the Entsiklopedye off from its major source of readers and trapped many of its contributors who were based there. Just as the second Yidn volume was being sent to subscribers in Spring 1940, Germany invaded France. Making matters even worse, the copies of the second Yidn volume were sent to the United States, and but most copies were lost at sea. A few volumes that had been sent via the regular mail arrived safely in New York, however. The encyclopedia's editors themselves fled and, after making a harrowing escape via Spain and Portugal, arrived in New York by late summer / early autumn 1940. With the end of World War II and as the enormity of the Nazi Holocaust was becoming understood, the editors decided that the Entsiklopedye should continue. The post-war Yidn volumes contain descriptive essays on Jewish life on the eve of the Holocaust, a study of Jewish life in the Americas, and the last two volumes (1964 and 1966) are historical overviews of the Holocaust. By the release of the final volume in 1966, few of the original editors of The Algemeyne Entsiklopedye were still alive. Many of the great Jewish scholars who contributed to the project had also passed. In the Foreword, the administrator of the Entsiklopedye Iser Goldberg outlined the task of future Jewish scholarship as one of creating a new corpus of work dedicated to the Holocaust. He declared that this project that once was to guide millions of Yiddish readers into the modern world was now dedicated to "the thousands of readers and subscribers in Jewish communities" with the much more modest goal of making "an important contribution to the growing khurbn [Holocaust] literature." By bringing this neglected and unique work of Jewish scholarship back into studies of modern Jewish history, Trachtenberg makes a significant contribution to current historiographical debates on the content and boundaries of Jewish knowledge in the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth-century. In large measure because of the lack of researchers able to work in the Yiddish language, the significance and history of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye has been overlooked, despite the fact that it was one of the great (and few) collaborative projects involving the twentieth century's most influential Jewish scholars. This monograph will inform recent scholarly discussions on the function of Yiddish before, during, and after World War II, on the extent to which Eastern European Jews turned away from Diaspora Nationalism on the eve of war, and to what degree Jews in the United States were "silent" in the decades following the Nazi Holocaust"-- |cProvided by publisher 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 630 00 Algemeyne entsiḳlopedye. 650 0 Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Yiddish |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Jews |y20th century |vEncyclopedias |xHistory. 650 0 Yiddish literature |vBibliography. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 610 20 Central Yiddish Culture Organization |xHistory |y20th century. 650 6 Encyclopédies et dictionnaires yiddish |0(CaQQLa)000273390 |xHistoire et critique. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377571 650 6 Littérature yiddish |0(CaQQLa)201-0042917 |vBibliographie. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378238 610 27 Central Yiddish Culture Organization. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00687524 650 7 Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Yiddish. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01747596 650 7 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 Yiddish literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01182824 610 27 Central Yiddish Culture Organization |xHistory |y20th century. |2nli 630 07 Algemeyne entsiḳlopedye. |2nli 650 7 Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Yiddish |xHistory and criticism. |2nli 650 7 Jews |xHistory |y20th century |vEncyclopedias. |2nli 650 7 Yiddish literature |vBibliography. |2nli 650 7 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. |2nli 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Bibliographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919895 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Encyclopedias. |2lcgft 655 7 Bibliographies. |2lcgft 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available. |zHosted by ProQuest Ebook Central |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=6904023 852 0 |bstacks |hDS102.8 |i.T73 2022 852 |bebook