Showing papers in "East European Jewish Affairs in 2019"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the Jews are waning in the collective historical sense; they are losing in many cases the daily aspect of practical life, a sense for t...
Abstract: Translated, annotated, and introduced by Jacob Ari Labendz.1[T]he Jews are waning in the collective historical sense; they are losing in many cases the daily aspect of practical life, a sense for t...
7 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the memoirs of three Jewish women to understand how they remembered childhood in 1950s communist Bucharest, and found that they remembered their childhood in Bucharest as a traumatic experience.
Abstract: This article examines the memoirs of three Jewish women – Marianne Hirsch, Anca Vlasopolos, and Haya Leah Molnar – to understand how they remembered childhood in 1950s communist Bucharest. I first ...
6 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors emphasize Esperanto's imperial Russian origins as an essential frame for understanding the larger history of Esperanto and its creator, L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917).
Abstract: This article emphasizes Esperanto's imperial Russian origins as an essential frame for understanding the larger history of Esperanto and its creator, L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917). Despite Esp...
5 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines contemporary Israeli poetry and visual art by Russian-Jewish artists of the 1.5 generation, artists who were born in the Soviet Union but resettled in Israel during the 1990s.
Abstract: The article examines contemporary Israeli poetry and visual art by Russian-Jewish artists of the 1.5 generation, artists who were born in the Soviet Union but resettled in Israel during the 1990s. ...
4 citations
TL;DR: This article argued that "Jews, unlike Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Germans, did not pose a direct, irredentist threat to interwar Polish territorial integrity. They were not a territorially concentrated group with border r...
Abstract: Jews, unlike Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Germans, did not pose a direct, irredentist threat to interwar Polish territorial integrity. They were not a territorially concentrated group with border r...
4 citations
TL;DR: A corner of the vanished world of Galician Jewry emerges from 104 postcards brought to America from Poland by the central figures of this family collection, Jacob and Matylda Schiff Sicherman.
Abstract: A corner of the vanished world of Galician Jewry emerges from 104 postcards brought to America from Poland by the central figures of this family collection—Jacob and Matylda Schiff Sicherman. World...
3 citations
TL;DR: This article examined references to Jews in the texts produced within the framework of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) national movement in Habsburg Galicia during the 1830s and 1840s.
Abstract: This paper examines references to Jews in the texts produced within the framework of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) national movement in Habsburg Galicia during the 1830s and 1840s. Looking at literary ...
2 citations
TL;DR: Among the many contentious topics relating to Jewish participation in the Russian Revolution, few have proven as controversial as that of Jewish involvement in apparatuses of Soviet state security as mentioned in this paper, which has proven to be controversial.
Abstract: Among the many contentious topics relating to Jewish participation in the Russian Revolution, few have proven as controversial as that of Jewish involvement in apparatuses of Soviet state security....
2 citations
TL;DR: Debora Vogel (1900-1942) helped develop modernism in Lviv in the interwar period as mentioned in this paper, making connections between the dominant Polish school of philosophical l...
Abstract: Debora Vogel (1900–1942) helped develop modernism in Lviv in the interwar period. As a philosopher and writer, she was able to make connections between the dominant Polish school of philosophical l...
2 citations
TL;DR: In 1967, after the defeat of Poland's Arab allies in the Six-Day War, Poland broke off diplomatic relations with Israel and the government of the Netherlands agreed to represent Israel's interests in...
Abstract: In 1967, after the defeat of Poland's Arab allies in the Six-Day War, Poland broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. The government of the Netherlands agreed to represent Israel's interests in ...
2 citations
TL;DR: While the Russian conquest of Central Asia in the 1860s doubled the size of the Muslim population of the empire, it also brought into the empire a small community of indigenous Persian-speaking Jew.
Abstract: While the Russian conquest of Central Asia in the 1860s doubled the size of the Muslim population of the empire, it also brought into the empire a small community of indigenous Persian-speaking Jew...
TL;DR: The Jewish leadership in Romanian territories during World War II sought to change antisemitic legislation, stop deportations, and ensure the survival of the deportees in the camps and ghettos as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Jewish leadership in Romanian territories during World War II sought to change antisemitic legislation, stop deportations, and ensure the survival of the deportees in the camps and ghettos. Unf...