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Subject(s)

• Jewish newspapers—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Yiddish newspapers—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Hebrew newspapers—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Jewish press—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Jews—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Yiddish newspapers—History—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

"The emergence of the Yiddish and Hebrew press in the United States was one of the great cultural enterprises of the Jewish immigrants from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires in the last third of the nineteenth century, and its influence on the lives of individuals and communities was enormous. From the Cellar to the Top Floor traces the journey of the Hebrew Alphabet press across the Atlantic following the Jewish mass migration. Against the background of the American press, the book discusses the development of the Hebrew and Yiddish press from an economic, cultural and political point of view. It traces the ongoing negotiations between the Jewish immigrant society and the American majority society at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on personal correspondence, legal documents, archival evidence, and contemporary press materials, the book offers the first comprehensive analysis in Hebrew of the formative decades in the emergence of one of the leading cultural institutions in modern Jewish society."-- Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-309) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction ; Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States ;The study of Hebrew and Yiddish journalism in the United States ; The chronological framework ; Research methods and sources ; The structure of the book
• The Hebrew alphabet in the United States ; From Both Sides of the Ocean ; Jewish bilingualism and multilingualism ; London: between the port of origin and the port of destination ; Popular culture and the mass press ; 1900- in the United States: 1870 ; Jewish press in English and German in the United States ; Christian Breaism and the beginning of the Hebrew press in the United States ; "Because I crossed the Jordan with ease and now I was to two camps. ; Jewish immigration and micro-entrepreneurship: Sharjah as a case study ; The advertising market and Yiddish press ; Settlement struggles at the printing house ; "From the basement to the upper floor" ; Yiddish journalism and urban politics in New York ; Shahrazun and urban politics ; The Jewish press and the political question ; The mechanism and the machine: parable and parable ; "Socialism without Trial" ; The legal case and the claims of the parties ; Socialists, anarchists, capitalists ; Community trust and legal authority ; Ideological struggles in the immigrant press: The Italian case ; The sentence: Epilogue
• חלק א. האות העברית בארצות הברית
• חלק ב. כלל ופרט: כתריאל צבי שרהזון וצמיחת עיתונות יידיש בארצות הברית.

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Place name(s)

Israel Jerusalem.

Title on title page verso

From the cellar to the top floor : the emergence of the Yiddish and Hebrew Press in the United States, 1870-1900

ISBN

• 9789657839256 ((paperback))
• 9657839254 ((paperback))

OCLC

1458462982

Danacode

004502910577

RCP

C - O

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