Making Jews modern : the Yiddish and Ladino press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
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Making Jews modern : the Yiddish and Ladino press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
（The modern Jewish experience）
Indiana University Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-300) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780253218933
Description
"An engaging and thought-provoking analysis, . . . a pioneering foray into a new field of study, 'Jews and Empires in History.'" -Slavic Review
On the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries. What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? To answer these questions, Sarah Abrevaya Stein explores the texts most widely consumed by Jewish readers: popular newspapers in Yiddish and Ladino. This skillful comparative study yields new perspectives on the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational communities and the diverse ways in which modernity was envisioned under the rule of empire.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliterations, Dates, and Terms
Introduction: Making Jews Modern
Part One. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
1. Creating a Yiddish Newspaper Culture
2. Creating a Ladino Newspaper Culture
Part Two. Imaging Culture
3. Iconographies of Agitation
4. The Science of Healthy Living
Part Three. Advertising Aspiration
5. Images of Daily Life
6. Advertising Anxiety
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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ISBN 9780253343048
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On the eve of the twentieth century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires, were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries, respectively. What language should Jews speak or teach their children? Should Jews acculturate, and if so, into what regional or European culture? What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? To understand the ways in which Russian and Ottoman Jews formulated and answered these questions in the process of remaking themselves as modern, Sarah Abrevaya Stein explores the texts most widely consumed by Jewish readers: popular newspapers in Yiddish and Ladino. Examining the press' role as an agent of historical change, "Making Jews Modern" interrogates a diverse array of verbal and visual texts culled from Yiddish and Ladino newspapers, including cartoons, photographs, and advertisements.
This comparative study of Russian and Ottoman Jewries yields new perspectives on larger issues, such as the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational communities and the diverse ways in which modernity was envisioned in different contexts and specifically under the rule of empire. This original and lively comparative exploration of Sephardi and Ashkenazi cultures enriches our sense of cultural life under the rule of multiethnic empires, and complicates our understanding of Europe's polyphonic modernities.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Making Jews Modern Part I. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires 1. Creating A Yiddish Newspaper Culture
- 2. Creating a Ladino Newspaper Culture Part II. Imaging Culture 3. Iconographies of Agitation
- 4. The Science of Healthy Living Part III. Advertising Aspiration 5. Images of Daily Life
- 6. Advertising Anxiety Epilogue
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