A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938 by Aya Elyada non-media and in the city of

and in the city of Vilna―the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"―which was a major center of East European Jewish intellectual and cultural life

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Brimming with her signature wit

"And the World Stood Silent" is invaluable as a historical account and as a documentary source

A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938 by Aya Elyada non-media and in the city ofThis book explores a unique and under researched chapter in German Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. From the late eighteenth century onwards, as growing circles of the German Jewish population shifted from speaking Yiddish to German, the once popular early modern corpus of Old Yiddish literature ceased to be published in the German speaking