Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16: Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife

Scholarship on the civilization of Polish Jews has tended to focus on elite culture and canonical literature; even modern Yiddish culture has generally been approached from the perspective of 'great works'. This volume of Polin focuses on the less explored but historically vital theme of Jewish popular culture and shows how, confronted by the challenges and opportunities of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it blossomed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774749
• ISBN13: 9781874774747
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"