Yiddish Civilisation
The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
- 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: | 23mm x 132mm x 198mm |
Critics Review
Paul Kriwaczek’s essential argument is simple: this is, or rather was, a civilization. Its people were a nation. So his book is essentially descriptive, showing that the culture was indeed broad and deep and widespread enough to justify those terms. The description is well done and makes the point very effectively … I do not know what Jews will make of YIDDISH CIVILISATION, but for Christians it could not have been published at a more opportune time * Spectator *
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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