Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture (Legenda Studies in Yiddish)

by Gennady Estraikh (Author), Mikhail Krutikov (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $103.78

  Berlin emerged from the First World War as a multicultural European capital of immigration from the former Russian Empire, and while Russian emigres spread westward in the 1920s, a thriving East European Jewish community remained. Jewish intellectuals and activists participated vigorously in German cultural and political debate.