Yiddish Civilisation
The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
$26.99
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2006
Summary
In the 13th century, Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria, slowly moving 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753819036 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753819031 |
| Author: | Paul Kriwaczek |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 23mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A highly enjoyable and surprisingly positive account of how Jewish culture helped shape European history and vice versa.” -“The Sunday Telegraph”
“An outstanding survey… . Kriwaczek tracks the origins, flowering, and destruction of this unique, vibrant, and tenacious culture with a fine mixture of pride, regret, and eloquence.” -“Booklist”
“Evocative and precise… . An enjoyable narrative that captures the intricacies of a very complicated history.”-“Publishers Weekly”
“Informative and very entertaining … conjures up and re-creates baroque images and marvelous set pieces of feverish activity, long lost towns and shtetls [as well as] wonderful pictures of lost communities of Jews.”-“The Irish Times”
About The Author
Paul Kriwaczek
Paul Kriwaczek, an Austrian Jew, was born in 1937 in Vienna. He grew up in north-west London, where the Yiddish language and culture were still strong among his friends’ parents. After a career with the BBC External Services and as a successful programme-maker for BBC television, he retired in the mid 1990s and lives in north London.
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