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Article: Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. Ed. by GENNADY ESTRAIKH and MIKHAIL KRUTIKOV. (Studies in Yiddish, 3) Oxford: Legenda. 2001. x+325 pp. ISBN 1-900755-48-3 (pbk).
The editors of the proceedings of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, held in Oxford in July 2000, deliver on their promise to illuminate the 'complex diversities of the relationships between Yiddish and the Left' (p. ix). The international roster of contributors covers an impressively broad array of topics, ranging from Henry Srebrnik's examination of American Jewish Communists' involvement in the Soviet Birobidzhan ...