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	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 10 Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art edited by Gennady Estraikh, Jordan Finkin, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read him in the original. Since the 1920s, however, Aleichems works have been known to a wider international audience through numerous translations, and through film and theatre adaptations, most famously Fiddler on the Roof. This volume examines those translations published in Europe, ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 9 A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952) edited by Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, David Schneer and Jordan Finkin Peretz Markish (1895-1952), one of Eastern Europe's most important Yiddish poets in the period between the two world wars, was a fiercely independent maverick who published work in all literary genres. Although emerging from the Kiev literary tradition, Markish always went his own way in a literary career spanning four decades and embracing almost all twentieth-century aesthetic movements. After the Revolution, he settled in Poland, but returned ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 8 Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov Berlin emerged from the First World War as a multicultural European capital of immigration from the former Russian Empire, and while Russian emigrés spread westward in the 1920s, a thriving East European Jewish community remained. Jewish intellectuals and activists participated vigorously in German cultural and political debate. Multilingual Jewish journalists, writers, actors and artists, invigorated by the creative atmosphere of the city, ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 7 Yiddish and the Cold War by Gennady Estraikh Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, Poland, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. The sacrificial role of the Red Army, and the Soviet Union as a whole, reinforced the Left movement in the post-Holocaust Jewish world. Apart from card-carrying devotees, such groups attracted numerous sympathisers, including the artist Marc Chagall and the writer Sholem ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 6 David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism by Joseph Sherman and Gennady Estraikh Among the finest prose stylists in Yiddish literature, David Bergelson (1884-1952) was caught up in many of the twentieth century's most defining events. In 1909 he emerged as a pioneer of modernist prose, observing the slow decay of the Tsarist empire. In 1917 he welcomed the Revolution, but the bloodshed of the ensuing Civil War and the dogmatism of the Bolsheviks drove him to emigration. For more than a decade (1921-1934), he lived in Weimar ... Hardback. Price US$89.50
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 5 The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction edited by Richie Robertson and Joseph Sherman Early in the twentieth century, Yiddish, previously stigmatized as a corrupt jargon, came to be recognized as a language in its own right which was already the vehicle for a rich literature. Many writers in other languages gradually became aware of the status of Yiddish, sometimes by encountering Yiddish-speaking communities in Eastern Europe, and responded to Yiddish language and culture in their own works, while Yiddish writers adopted, and ... Hardback. Publisher's Price US$69.00, Our Price US$24.95
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 4 The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature by Joseph Sherman To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe? How far did the ambivalent, ... Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$24.95
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 3 Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an 'ugly jargon' despised by assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zionists alike, it was embraced as genuine folk idiom by Jewish adherents of socialism and communism worldwide. Following the Holocaust, Yiddish was the primary language of education, culture and propaganda for millions of people on five ... Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$24.95
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 2 The Shtetl: Image and Reality by Mukhail Krutikov (Legenda 2000) Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$24.95
	Legenda Studies in Yiddish 1 Yiddish in the Contemporary World edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Kruitkov In August 1908, a few prominent Jews - socialists, liberals, non-political writers and cultural organizers - worked out a programme for promoting Yiddish as the official language of Ashkenazic Jews. Ninety years later, leading scholars explore the ... Paperback. Publisher's Price US$65.00, Our Price US$24.95