“Shtif”

Excepts from Nokhem Shtif's accounts of pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. 

Sep 15, 2016

Best known for his call to found a university-level institution devoted to Ashkenazic culture, which helped to lead to the founding of YIVO, Nokhem Shtif develops his arguments for Yiddishism in these excerpts from his 1920 work, "Yiddish and the Jews." 

Oct 04, 2015