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Warsaw and Yiddish : Europe’s once largest Jewish city
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dc.contributor.author | Kamusella, Tomasz | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-12T16:30:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-12T16:30:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-06 | |
dc.identifier | 281199723 | |
dc.identifier | 43bdf84c-d6f7-4e71-92f2-43fd6fd9f39e | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kamusella , T 2022 , ' Warsaw and Yiddish : Europe’s once largest Jewish city ' , Wortfolge. Szyk Słów , vol. 6 . https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2022.06.10 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2544-4093 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3484-8352/work/118799849 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25996 | |
dc.description.abstract | Prior to the Katastrofe (Yiddish for ‘Holocaust’), Warsaw was the world’s capital of Yiddishland, or the Ashkenazic civilization of Yiddish language and culture. In the terms of absolute numbers of Jewish inhabitants, at the turn of the 20th century, New York City surpassed Warsaw. Yet, from the perspective of cultural and political institutions and organizations, Warsaw remained the center of Europe’s Jewish life. This article offers an overview of the rise of Warsaw as such a center, its destruction during World War II, and the center’s partial revival in the aftermath, followed by its extinction, which was sealed with the antisemitic ethnic cleansing of Poland’s last Jewish communities in 1968. Twenty years after the fall of communism, beginning at the turn of the 2010s, a new awareness of the Jewish facet of Warsaw’s and Poland’s culture and history has developed during the past decade. It is a chance for a new opening, for embracing Jewish culture, Yiddish and Judaism as inherent elements of Polish culture and history This country’s history and culture was not created exclusively by Catholics, as ethnonationalists are wont to claim incorrectly. Hence, the essay is intended to serve as a corrective to this anachronistic preconception. | |
dc.format.extent | 29 | |
dc.format.extent | 571656 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Wortfolge. Szyk Słów | en |
dc.subject | Nationalism | en |
dc.subject | Language politics | en |
dc.subject | Politics of script | en |
dc.subject | Warsaw | en |
dc.subject | Yiddish | en |
dc.subject | Yiddish-German language | en |
dc.subject | Jewish history | en |
dc.subject | Central Europe | en |
dc.subject | D731 World War II | en |
dc.subject | DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics | en |
dc.subject | PD Germanic languages | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | D731 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | DK | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PD | en |
dc.title | Warsaw and Yiddish : Europe’s once largest Jewish city | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial History | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.31261/WSS.2022.06.10 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/wss/article/view/12826/ | en |
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