1929: Mapping the Jewish World

Contents

>> v Contents Introduction 1 Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh Part I: Global Ties 1 Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking 11 Globally: The View from the United States Hasia R. Diner 2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads 27 David Engel 3 The Stalinist “Great Break” in Yiddishland 36 Gennady Estraikh 4 Permanent Transit: Jewish Migration during the 53 Interwar Period Tobias Brinkmann 5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant 73 Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929 Rebecca Kobrin 6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929: 93 The Case of OZE-TOZ and the JDC Rakefet Zalashik 7 Territorialism and the ICOR “American Commission 107 of Scientists and Experts” to the Soviet Far East Henry Srebrnik vi << Contents Part II: Local Stories 8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations 127 Avner Ben-Zaken 9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America 139 Eric L. Goldstein 10 When the Local Trumps the Global: The Jewish World 155 of São Paulo, Brazil, 1924–1940 Jeffrey Lesser Part III: Literature 11 Patterning a New Life: American Jewish Literature in 1929 171 Gabriella Safran 12 David Vogel: Married Life 1929 185 Glenda Abramson 13 Radical Conservatism: Bashevis’s Dismissal of Modernism 201 Joseph Sherman 14 Desire, Destiny, and Death: Fantasy and Reality in Soviet 217 Yiddish Literature around 1929 Mikhail Krutikov Index 235 Contributors 243 ...