Eastern European and Russian Jewish History

Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union Since 1959: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis

by Mark Tolts

Paper presented at the conference “Yiddish in the Contemporary World”, University of Oxford, 19-21 April 1998 [Revised as of 4 May 2012]

This paper is based mainly on the results of the post-war Soviet censuses concerning respondents’ native language and... more This paper is based mainly on the results of the post-war Soviet censuses concerning respondents’ native language and second language. The statistical data on Yiddish were studied for the former union republics of the USSR and their capitals. For Belorussia, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the data were also studied for their different regions. In the 1994 Russian microcensus, a question on the primary language of conversation at home was asked for the first time, and the respective data concerning Yiddish in the city of Moscow and Birobidzhan (“Jewish”) oblast were analyzed.

Sulle tracce di Zuzanna Ginczanka

by Alessandro Amenta

eSamizdat 2008 (VI) 1, pp. pp. 117-134
Essay / Saggio / Esej

Conference programm: To stay or go? Jews in Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, Part II - Warsaw 05/12

by Katrin Steffen

Der Holocaust in der Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas

by Katrin Steffen

in: Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europäer, hg. von A. Kaminsky, D. Müller und S. Troebst, Göttingen 2011

http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/autorbiographie/9783835309371.html

Zur Europäizität der Geschichte der Juden im östlichen Europa-H-Soz-u-Kult/Forum/Artikel

by Katrin Steffen

Population since World War I [up to the 21st Century]

by Mark Tolts

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe / Online Edition, 2010

This article is a broad overview of numerical dynamics, demographic processes and mixed marriage among the Jewish... more This article is a broad overview of numerical dynamics, demographic processes and mixed marriage among the Jewish populations of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Baltic States, the Soviet Union as a whole and the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belorussia, and Moldavia separately.

Migration since World War I [up to the 21st Century]

by Mark Tolts

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe / Online Edition, 2010

This article is a broad overview of migration processes among the Jewish populations of Poland, Romania, Hungary,... more This article is a broad overview of migration processes among the Jewish populations of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Baltic States, the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and the other European Successor States.

Evreii din Basarabia, cine sunt ei

by Alexandr Roitman

Published in: Dilemele convieţuirii în procesul modernizării societăţii Româneşti în spaţiul Est-Carpatic (secolele XIX-XX), Ed. Junimea, Iaşi, 2011, p. 91-103.

The LEVI Case: Document 1 and a note on LEVI and GILDINER, trans. from the Polish by L.W. Gluchowski

by Leszek Gluchowski

See also Document 2 on the LEVI Case.

The LEVI Case: Document 2 and a note on LEVI and GILDINER, trans. from the Polish by L.W. Gluchowski

by Leszek Gluchowski

See also Document 1 on the LEVI Case.

“En el centenario de María Rosa Lida de Malkiel”, Revista de Filología Española, 91 (2011), pp. 131-147.

by Ángel Gómez-Moreno

Tale of Two Photographs: Nathan Birnbaum and the Czernowitz Conference of 1908

by Jess Olson

Eastern European Jewish Heritage: Adapting Old World Traditions with a Modern World through Storytelling, Artifacts, and Place-making

by Megan Sharpless

Presented paper at the 2011 Midwest Popular Culture/ American Culture Association Conference; Jewish Studies Panel, October 14-16, 2011.

This ethnographic interview examines culturally specific dimensions related to being raised in the Midwest by... more This ethnographic interview examines culturally specific dimensions related to being raised in the Midwest by Yiddish-speaking parents with an Old World ethos. The use of linguistic anthropology can be instrumental in exploring the modern ethnic fusion of Old World traditions in the New World, offering analyses and understanding to mysticism, place-making and material culture which links the past to the present day. Central to this study is placing the subject in a broader linguistic anthropological and cultural framework. Formal ethnographic documentation of first-generation immigration stories provides answers pertaining to intergenerational culture change as well as expands knowledge of American Jewish subculture today. Research questions addressed in the participant interview are relevant to the cultural dichotomy of the Old and New Worlds and how these cultural phenomena continue to reproduce and reinforce language, customs, and storytelling tradition in ethnic American families today. Research mediums such as anthropological linguistics, ethnography, and narrative can heighten awareness of the Jewish cultural-socio-historical experience.

Between the Devil's waters and the fall into History, or an alternate occount of Mircea Eliade's diopteries (International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, IV, no. 2, Autumn-Winter 2011)

by Liviu Bordas

“The Eagle, Its Twin Heads and Many Faces: Synagogue Chandeliers Surmounted by Double-headed Eagles,” Jewish Ceremonial Objects in Transcultural Context (Studia Rosenthaliana, 37, 2004), pp. 77-129.

by Ilia Rodov

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‘Hillel Zeitlin's Zohar, The History of a Translation and Commentary Project’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 10 (2004), pp. 119-157 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'התהוותו וגלגוליו של מפעל תרגום וביאור ספר הזוהר להלל צייטלין', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית, י  (תשס"ד), עמ' 157-119.

‘New Discoveries Concerning R. Judah Leib Ashlag’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 19 (2009), pp. 345-368 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'גילויים חדשים על ר' יהודה ליב אשלג: הערות על הקבלה במזרח אירופה ובארץ ישראל בראשית המאה העשרים', קבלה: כתב עת לחקר כתבי המיסטיקה היהודית, כ (תשס"ט), עמ' 368-345.

‘Stations in the Life of Michael Levi Rodkinson: Prolegomena to a Biography’, GAL-ED 22 (2010), pp. 13-44 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'נפתולי מיכאל לוי רודקינסון: קווים ראשונים לביוגרפיה', גלעד כב (תש"ע), עמ' 44-13

‘Zvi la-Tzadik: Joseph Perl, R. Zvi Hirsch of Zidachov and the Controversy of Numerology’, Spiritual Authority: Struggles over Cultural Power in Jewish Thought, eds. Howard Kreisel, Boaz Huss, Uri Ehrlich, Beer Sheva 2009, pp. 266-300 (Hebrew)

by Jonatan Meir

'צבי לצדיק: יוסף פרל, ר' צבי הירש מזידיטשוב ופולמוס הגימטריות', סמכות רוחנית: מאבקים על כח תרבותי בהגות היהודית, בעריכת חיים קרייסל, בועז הוס, אורי ארליך, באר שבע תש"ע, עמ' 300-263.

‘Zaddikim in Hell’ [Uriel Gellman, Sefer Hasidim: A Lost Anti-Hasidic Polemic, The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem 2007], GAL-ED 22 (2010), pp. 138-145

by Jonatan Meir