Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

by Kalman Weiser and Joshua A. Fogel

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739140698
• ISBN13: 9780739140697
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"