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Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 On the Politics of Yiddish
Part 3 Politics, Ideology, and Scholarship
Chapter 4 Yiddishism and Judaism
Chapter 5 Yiddish language politics in the Ukraine (1930-1936)
Chapter 6 What was going on at the 1935 Yivo Conference?
Chapter 7 The Czernowitz Conference in retrospect
Chapter 8 The politics of research on spoken Yiddish
Part 9 Communities, Centres, and Cities
Chapter 10 Yiddish socialist press in New York, 1880s-1920s
Chapter 11 Yiddish in orthodox communities of Jerusalem
Chapter 12 Shloyme Mikhoels and his theatre
Chapter 13 Writers must eat: the New York City Yiddish Writers Group of the Work Progress Administration
Chapter 14 Petticoat Lane and the North-West Passage (London, 1880-1940)
Chapter 15 Art and politics: the case of the New York Artef Theatre (1925-1940)
Part 16 Language, Folklore, and Literature
Chapter 17 Zmires Purim-the third phase of Jewish carnavalistic folk-literature
Chapter 18 Dovid Bergelson's Bam Dnieper: a passport to Moscow
Chapter 19 Dovid Holfstein-our first wonder
Chapter 20 The Aston corpus of Soviet Yiddish lexicon
Chapter 21 A Vilna folklorist's collection: Structural analysis of Yiddish riddles
Chapter 22 Mr Khauruchenka, Miss Shaihets, Mrs Hoika and others: the origin of some other unusual family names
Chapter 23 List of contributors.