One thousand years of Ashkenazi culture

The authors, scientists of their five countries, talk about the thousand-year history of European Ashkenazz Jews, closely intertwined with the history and culture of other peoples. Materials collected in the book give an answer to the question of why Idish culture did not even disappear even the sin of the complete destruction of the language on which it developed, and continues to live both in human souls and in world civilization. Edited by Jean. Baumgarten, Annette Vijorka, Buthel Nibors and Rachel Ertel. In Russian - for the first time. From the content: common homeland: from the origin to the XIV century. Jews in the West in the Middle Ages: Ashkenazic space (XI-XIV centuries) Wise men of France and Lorraine. Ashkenazic moralists and mystics. Dissemination of knowledge to the era of typography. The heyday of the Ashkenaz Jewry before the beginning of the new time (XIV-XVIII centuries) The emergence of community model: laws and privileges (the Sacred Roman Empire of the German Nation and the Austro-Hungarian Empire) Penetration of Ashkenazov to Eastern Europe: Poland and Lithuania. Jews-Ashkenazy in Frances New Time. Jews in Germany and in Austria in the era of absolutism. From Emancipation to World War II: shocks and changes. Zionism and Ashkenazi world from the end of the XIX century. To the foundation of the state of Israel. The spread of Marxism in the Ashkenaz world of Central and Eastern Europe. Soviet Union: from the arrival of the Bolsheviks to the death of Stalin. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In Canada. In the United States (1881-1941) Philosophical and religious thought. Mysticism, messianism, Hasidism from the Middle Ages to the XIX century. Orthodox and neutodoxia. Languages, literature and art. Jewish literature of the New Time in Hebrew and Yiddish. Press on Yiddish in Europe to World War II. Prose on Yiddish in the United States until 1939. Literature on Idisch in the Soviet Union (1917-1991) Literature on Yiddish in the Western world after World War II. Jewish literature in non-Jewish languages ​​of the Centers of Ashkenazian life after 1945. The end of the Ashkenazic people? Bibliography. Vocabulary