Czernowitz at 100 the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective ; [a selection of revised and expanded papers first presented at an international conference of the same name convened at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2008

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection that assesses the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held in Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi in Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of scholars re-examining eastern European Jewish life, each contributor examines the successes and failures of the Yiddishist movement. The Czernowitz Conference: Contexts, Ironies, And The Verdict Of Jewish History / Ezra Mendelson -- A Tale Of Two Photographs: Nathan Birnbaum, The Election Of 1907, And The 1908 Yiddish Language Conference / Jess Olson -- Peretz's Commitment To Yiddish In Czernowitz: A National Caprice? / Marie Schumacher-brunhes -- Mother Tongue, Mame-loshn, And Kulturshprakh: The Tension Between Populism And Elitism In The Language Ideology Of Noah Prylucki / Kalman Weiser -- Y.l. Peretz And The Politics Of Yiddish / Marc Caplan -- Reclaiming Czernowitz In Aharon Appelfeld's Flowers Of Darkness / Philip Hollander -- Dem Oyle Regls Tokhter: The Poetic Pilgrimage Of Beyle Schaechter-gottesman / Leye Lipsky -- The Painter As Ethnographer: Maurycy Minkowski And The European Yiddish Intelligentsia Before World War I / Zachary M. Baker -- The Success Of The Czernowitz Yiddish Conference: Setting The Agenda For Yiddish Language Planning In The Twentieth Century / Rakhmiel Peltz -- From Czernowitz To Paris: The International Yiddish Culture Congress Of 1937 / Matthew Hoffman -- Yiddishism In Canadian Garb / Rebecca Margolis -- The Nathan And Solomon Birnbaum Archives, Toronto / David Birnbaum -- Mates Mieses's Defense Of The Yiddish Language / Mordkhe Schaechter (joshua A. Fogel, Translator). Edited By Kalman Weiser And Joshua A. Fogel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held at Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of scholars re-examining eastern European Jewish life, the successes and failures of the Yiddishist movement are examined. The contributors discuss how Yiddishism_a fascinating example of language-based nationalism_shaped the political and cultural landscape of territorially dispersed Jews across Eastern Europe and the world during the twentieth century.