Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 7
3. To David Shneer, z”l: A Dedication 9
4. Acknowledgements 17
5. Note on Spelling and Transliteration 18
6. Abbreviations 20
7. From Yiddishland to Yiddishlands: An Introduction 23
8. “Bist a yid ? Can’t you speak to me in Yiddish ?” Yiddish as a Marker of Identity among Polish Jews in the Soviet Union 51
9. Yiddish Spaces and Daily Culture in Early Post- Khurbn Poland: A Preliminary Analysis 65
10. Khurbn-Plays with No Nazis in Them: Shmuel- Yankev Harendorf and Perets Markish on the King of Lampedusa 93
11. Of Broken Pasts, Presents, Futures: The Short Life of Yiddish Cultural (Re)Construction in Poland, 1945 – 1950 119
12. Meanings and Lessons of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Memory Struggles Among Polish Jews in Buenos Aires, 1944 – 1955 145
13. Di lebedike meysim – The Walking Dead: Volf Tambur and Romanian Post-1945 Yiddish Literature 175
14. From Esteem to Madness, and Back: Rive Balyasne’s Life in Soviet Yiddish Literature 207
15. An Introduction to “Journeys: Poland” 231
16. Journeys: Poland 240
17. Yiddish and the German Democratic Republic: Translating Culture, Experience, and Loss to a German Audience 289
18. Yiddish in East Berlin: A Concert–Lecture 323
19. An Interview with Jalda Rebling 333
20. The Penetrable Iron Curtain: The Bucharest Jewish State Theater’s Tour to Israel in 1968 355
21. An Introduction to “A Quarter Century of Yiddish Broadcasting on Romanian Radio” 377
22. An Interview with Sholem Rubinger: A Quarter Century of Yiddish Broadcasting on Romanian Radio 382
23. Contributors 401