From Hasidic Piety to Secular Yiddishism: Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe 1750-1939

Publication date 26.04.2023

Prof. David Fishman

This course forms a part of Jewish History, Multiethnic Past, and Common Heritage: Urban Experience in Eastern Europe summer school.

Tradition and the Rise of Hasidism

Solomon Maimon, “On a Secret Society” from The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon (first ed. 1792-93) , in Gershon Hundert (ed.), Basic Papers on Hasidism, New York University Press, 1991 pp. 11-24.

Haskalah and Jewish Enlightenment

Zionism and the Formation of Jewish National Culture

Modern Yiddish Culture

Author

David Fishman

professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching courses in modern Jewish history. Dr. Fishman also serves as director of Project Judaica, JTS’s program in Ukraine, which is based at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy University. He directs its Jewish Archival Survey, which publishes guides to Jewish archival materials in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Comments and discussions

0 Comments