The Prime Of Yiddish

The Story

Yiddish evokes a stream of consciousness that combines nostalgia, introspection, imagination and cultural reminiscences. Yiddish culture was a peak of Jewish creativity in the last two thousand years. The flight of European Jews to the New World created vibrant centers of cultural and intellectual growth even while the European Jewish population was decimated by pogroms, revolutions and war. This study deals with an incredibly brief segment of time -- from the middle of the 19th century to post WWII -- that streaked across the heavens of Jewish history like a meteor. The extraordinary pace and extent which characterized the development and sophistication of Yiddish cultural productivity in this capsulized period has no parallel in the saga of modern man. The book also concentrates on one of the most creative and innovative personalities of the period, whose scholarship, intuition, and intellectual integrity contributed so extensively to the enhancement of Yiddish culture -- in short "the times of Samuel Niger".

A hardcover edition from 1996 of The Prime Of Yiddish by David Passow. It runs to 122 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.