"Attempting to meet European standards, Jewish writers exerted tremendous efforts to develop and enrich the Jews' inte…"

"Hebrew was generally considered the province of men and became associated with the male scholarly elite, in contrast …"

"already by 1918, the Communists had created the Evsektsiia within its own structure to carry out party policy among t…"

"Ironically, in view of later events, the relationships between Germans and Jews in these borderlands were sometimes c…"

"[Yiddish is] a treasure trove for the study of language and culture in general: cultural interaction, semiotics of cu…"

"YIVO’s founding emboldened a highbrow Yiddish intellectual life that flourished between the world wars and soon used …"

"Yiddish was a rich, living language, the chattering tongue of an urban population. It had the limitations of its orig…"

"The use of Yiddish was an expression not only of love of a language, but of pride in ourselves as a people; it was an…"

"The survival of Yiddish and its culture does not rest on our ability to find the right term for "corn flakes" or "jet…"

"Emphasizing the seemingly more pious stories of Sholem Aleykhem and Peretz, stressing Jewish passivity over action, o…"