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Contents illustr ations | ix acknowledgments | xi author’s note | xv Introduction: Yiddish as Instrument and Ideology | 1 1. The Jewish Revolution of 1905 | 20 2. From Jargon to Visnshaft | 46 3. Shmuel Niger and the Making of Yiddish High Culture | 82 4. Ber Borochov: Science in Service of the Revolution | 108 5. Nokhem Shtif: A Contrarian’s Yiddishism | 135 Conclusion | 158 notes | 167 bibliogr aphy | 197 index | 217 ...

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