Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein textbook-shipeasy here in English and Yiddish

here in English and Yiddish on facing pages

The captivating stories of luminaries from the worlds of politics

The first section

and on the history of secular Yiddish writing in Galicia

restores the obliterated lines of continuity between her and us

Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein textbook-shipeasy here in English and Yiddish"An engaging and thought provoking analysis, . . . a pioneering foray into a new field of study, 'Jews and Empires in History.'" Slavic ReviewOn the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries. What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? To answer these questions, Sarah