Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 On the Politics of YiddishPart 3 Politics, Ideology, and ScholarshipChapter 4 Yiddishism and JudaismChapter 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 retrospectChapter 8 The politics of research on spoken YiddishPart 9 Communities, Centres, and CitiesChapter 10 Yiddish socialist press in New York, 1880s-1920sChapter 11 Yiddish in orthodox communities of JerusalemChapter 12 Shloyme Mikhoels and his theatreChapter 13 Writers must eat: the New York City Yiddish Writers Group of the Work Progress AdministrationChapter 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 LiteratureChapter 17 Zmires Purim-the third phase of Jewish carnavalistic folk-literatureChapter 18 Dovid Bergelson's Bam Dnieper: a passport to MoscowChapter 19 Dovid Holfstein-our first wonderChapter 20 The Aston corpus of Soviet Yiddish lexiconChapter 21 A Vilna folklorist's collection: Structural analysis of Yiddish riddlesChapter 22 Mr Khauruchenka, Miss Shaihets, Mrs Hoika and others: the origin of some other unusual family namesChapter 23 List of contributors