TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susanne Marten-Finnis
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Vilna as a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928
T2  - Aspirations, Challenges, and Progress
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096818
N2  - Vilna (Polish Wilno), modern Vilnius and capital of Lithuania, was the traditional spiritual and intellectual centre of Jewish thought in the Russian Empire. It was often referred to as the ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’, a term that has now come to stand for the lost world of Jewish life in Europe. Most people today learned what they know about this Vilna from autobiographies or personal memoirs. This book takes a more objective look at how Vilna became a uniquely important centre of the Jewish press. In particular it follows the development of the Jewish press within the context of modernising Imperial Russia during the second half of the nineteenth century.   Vilna is revealed as an important centre for the Jewish Socialist movement, the Bund, towards the turn of the nineteenth century and in the years running up to the 1905 Revolution. Bundist journalism is discovered to be the sponsor of a Jewish cultural ideology called Yiddishism.
KW  - Wilna, Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Po, Presse, Geschichte, the Bund, Jewish Socialist Movement, Yiddishism, Haskalah, Bundist Journalism, Vilnius
LA  - English
ER  -