Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland

by Kalman Weiser

Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki's dramatic path - from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, to professor of Yiddish in Soviet Lithuania - uniquely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802097162
• ISBN13: 9780802097163
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher