From Ashkenaz to Zionism: putting eastern european jewish life in (alphabetical) order
The publication of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe is a monumental achievement. It is the type of text that can transform a discipline, providing easily accessible and reasonably accurate answers to common reference questions and summarizing the state of the field in an evenhanded an...
| Subtitles: | Review Essay |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2009]
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| In: |
AJS review
Year: 2009, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 379-389 |
| Review of: | The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale University Press, 2008) (Veidlinger, Jeffrey)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | The publication of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe is a monumental achievement. It is the type of text that can transform a discipline, providing easily accessible and reasonably accurate answers to common reference questions and summarizing the state of the field in an evenhanded and inclusive manner. As one of the nearly 450 contributors to the encyclopedia, I personally feel a great deal of pride in its outcome. The two-volume, 2,400-page encyclopedia includes more than 1,800 entries, almost 1,200 illustrations, 57 color plates, and 55 maps. Editor in chief Gershon David Hundert of McGill University has succeeded in producing, as YIVO claims, “the definitive reference work on all aspects of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.” |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009409990250 |