Yiddish: A Global Culture - by David Mazower (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture--its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. This landmark exhibition catalog offers a panoramic view of Yiddish: A Global Culture to the general reader, placing the transnational story of Yiddish within broader world history. The 344 full-color pages include an eight-page gatefold of "Yiddishland," the exhibition's 60-foot mural, along with hundreds of stunning reproductions of artworks, rare artifacts, and other key exhibits. With illuminating introductory essays and a timeline highlighting the iconic figures, breakout creative masterpieces, and controversies of the Yiddish world, this volume brings to dramatic life the significance of one remarkable civilization and its ongoing legacy.

Review Quotes

"A beautiful work that tells the history of European Jewish life as a story of language in print, onstage, and in the home." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

David Mazower is the research bibliographer and editorial director at the Yiddish Book Center and chief curator and writer of the Center's permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture. He oversees the Center's core collections and co-edits its magazine, Pakn Treger. Author of Yiddish Theatre in London, he is a founder and regular writer for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and has published widely on Yiddish popular and print culture, British Jewish history, Jewish art, and the work of his great-grandfather, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch.