Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation - Tapa blanda

Kriwaczek, Paul

 
9780753819036: Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
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ISBN 10: 0753819031 ISBN 13: 9780753819036
Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006

Sinopsis

A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on history

In the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to Poland and Lithuania and finally to western Russia and the Ukraine, becoming steadily less German and more Slav in the process. In its late-medieval heyday the culturally vibrant, economically successful, intellectually adventurous and largely self-ruling Yiddish society stretched from Riga on the Baltic down to Odessa on the Black Sea.

In the 1650s the Chmielnicki Massacres in the Ukraine by the Cossacks killed 100,000 Jews, forcing those that were left to spread out into the small towns (shtetls) and villages. The break-up of Poland-Lithuania - a safe haven for Jews in previous centuries - in the late 18th century further disrupted Yiddish society, as did the Russian anti-Jewish pogroms from the 1880s onwards, at the very time when Yiddish was producing a rich stream of plays, poems and novels.

Paul Kriwaczek describes the development, over the centuries, of Yiddish language, religion, occupations and social life, art, music and literature. The book ends by describing how the Yiddish way of life became one of the foundation stones of modern American, and therefore of world, culture.

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Paul Kriwaczek was born in Vienna in 1937. He grew up in north-west London, where the Yiddish language and culture were still strong among his friends' parents. In London he trained as a dentist, and spent a decade working in Iran and Afghanistan. From there he travelled extensively in Asia and Africa before developing a career in broadcasting and journalism. In 1970, he joined the BBC full-time and wrote, produced and directed for 25 years; he retired in the mid 1990s and lives in north London. Paul is fluent in six languages, including Farsi and Yiddish.

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Editorial
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0753819031
ISBN 13 
9780753819036
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
Contacto del fabricante
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Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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9781400033775: Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Vintage)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1400033772 ISBN 13:  9781400033775
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
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