East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 1-2 (2020)

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Yiddish in the City

Introduction

Introduction
Yiddish in the City
Karen Auerbach & Nick Underwood
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Research Article

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Do’ikayt and the Spaces of Politics in An-sky’s Novella In shtrom
Madeleine Cohen
Pages: 6-20
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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EEJA in Action

EEJA in Action: Excerpt from Sh. An-sky’s In shtrom, pages 54–56
Madeleine Cohen
Pages: 21-23
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Yehupets as Fantasy and Reality: Sholem Aleichem’s Kiev
Mikhail Krutikov
Pages: 24-41
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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The Revolution is a City: Moyshe Kulbak’s Poem “The City”
Jordan Finkin
Pages: 42-56
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Reportage from Blotetown: Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin (Tashrak) and the Shtetlization of New York City
Gil Ribak
Pages: 57-74
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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EEJA in Action

EEJA in Action: “Against Your Will You’re a Jew” (1909)
By Tashrak
Gil Ribak
Pages: 75-77
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Yiddish-Language World History and the Emergence of a Jewish Nationalist Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Thomas R. Prendergast
Pages: 78-94
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Goles Berlin, goles Pariz: The Kultur-lige’s Unsuccessful Effort to Cultivate a Transnational Yiddishist Organization (1921–1924)
Ellen D. Kellman
Pages: 95-114
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Yiddish Buenos Aires and the Struggle to Leave the Margins
Mariusz Kałczewiak
Pages: 115-133
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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“Kopl Not Filaret, Sore Not Salomea”: Debates About Jewish Naming Practices in Pre-World War II Poland
Kalman Weiser
Pages: 134-156
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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EEJA in Action

EEJA in Action: “The Development of the Jewish People Over the Last 100 Years” by Yakov Leshchinsky
Robert Brym
Pages: 157-242
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Introduction

Introduction
Hasidism: An EEJA Forum
Deborah Yalen
Page: 243
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Hasidic art and the Kabbalah
by Batsheva Goldman-Ida, Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, 450 pages, 180 color and b/w images, $216 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-28770-9
Maya Balakirsky Katz
Pages: 244-246
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Hasidic Commentary on the Torah
by Ora Wiskind-Elper, London, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018, 230 pages, $44.95, ISBN 978-1906764128
ChaeRan Y. Freeze
Pages: 246-248
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Hasidic studies: essays in history and gender
by Ada Rapoport-Albert, Introduction by Moshe Rosman, Liverpool, UK, Littman Library, 2018, 424 pp., $38.08, ISBN 978-1906764821
Glenn Dynner
Pages: 248-250
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Ada Rapoport-Albert, Hasidim ve-Shabeta'im, anashim ve-nashim [Studies in Hasidism, Sabbatianism and Gender]
. edited by Assaf, David and Immanuel Etkes (editors), Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar Center, 2015, 522 pp. List price: 118 NIS ISBN: 978-965-227-317-8
Yitzhak Lewis
Pages: 250-252
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Hasidism: key questions / Historical Atlas of Hasidism, cartography by Waldemar Spallek
by Marcin Wodziński, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, 368 pages, $74.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780190631260by Marcin Wodziński, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2018, 280 pp., 62 color + 39 b/w illus., 6 tables, 74 maps, $75.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780691174013
Moshe Rosman
Pages: 252-255
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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How Should Hasidism be Studied? Contemporary Answers to an Old Question
Historical Atlas of Hasidism, by Marcin Wodziński, Cartography by Waldemar Spallek, Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2018, 280 pp., $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691174013Hasidism: a new history, by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodziński, Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2018, 896 pp., $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780691175157
Adam Teller
Pages: 255-258
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Editorial

Editorial
Ada Rapoport-Albert: In Memoriam
Wojciech Tworek
Pages: 259-260
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Comic books, graphic novels and the Holocaust. Beyond Maus
edited by Ewa Stańczyk, London, Routledge, 2018, 131 pp., List Price $124 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-59864-5
Aneta Stępień
Pages: 261-263
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Friedrich Feigl, 1884-1965
edited by Nicholas Sawicki, Czech Republic, Arbor vitae, 2016, 335 pp., 711 CZK (Paperback), ISBN 978-80-7467-106-7
Anke Zimmermann
Pages: 263-266
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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Listings

Article
Czech and Slovak Listings: 2015, 2016, and 2017
Jacob Ari Labendz
Pages: 267-271
Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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