Od modernizacji do postwernakularyzmu. Najnowsze badania nad nowoczesną kulturą jidysz.
From Modernisation to Post-Vernacularism. The Most Recent Studies in Modern Yiddish Culture

Summary/Abstract: In his book The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, the historian David E. Fishman discusses, through a series of short analyses and close-ups, a number of issues fundamental to understanding of modern Yiddish culture such as, inter alia: choice of the national-culture language; definition and redefinition of the Jewish identity; secularisation of history and tradition. Fishman shows in what ways modernisation processes create the space for a variety of projects of Jewish modernity, how the religious-cultural community transforms into a national community, and, how the Yiddish language – originally, a prestigeless jargon – is becoming the language of modern culture. In her interpretation of the Fishman study, Ms. Szymaniak considers not only what new contributions has this book made to studies of the Yiddish culture but also, what the Yiddish culture is for its contemporary students; to what extent the subject-matter of their research rises to become the subject of their own personal experience.

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