YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Esther Kuznitz bilingual With cutting wit Katchor reveals

With cutting wit Katchor reveals a world similar to our own—lives are defined by possessions

biographies of all the featured poets

a restless playboy and his vindictive wife

sportswriters Murray Chass

but foods and customs from Bukhara

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation by Cecile Esther Kuznitz bilingual With cutting wit Katchor revealsThis book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti Semitism. From its headquarters in Vilna, Lithuania, YIVO tried to balance scholarly objectivity with its