From slavery to freedom: abolitionist expressions in maskilic sea adventures
“Black” themes held a substantial place in twentieth-century American Yiddish poetry and prose, as well as in Yiddish journalism. As Hasia Diner notes in her work on Jews and blacks in the United States in the twentieth century, Jews sympathized with the plight of American blacks and their fight for...
| Published in: | AJS review |
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| Subtitles: | Research Article |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2012]
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| In: |
AJS review
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jews
/ Blacks
/ The Americas
/ Slavery
/ Maskil
/ Literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish literature
B Writers B Judaism B African Americans B Slave trade B Haskalah B Abolitionism B Slaves B Abolition |
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| Summary: | “Black” themes held a substantial place in twentieth-century American Yiddish poetry and prose, as well as in Yiddish journalism. As Hasia Diner notes in her work on Jews and blacks in the United States in the twentieth century, Jews sympathized with the plight of American blacks and their fight for civil rights. However, this had not always been the case, as evidenced by the many staunch Jewish supporters of slavery and Jewish slave owners and traders. Jonathan Schorsch claims that “under the sign of the Haskala…little changed” in this respect. In discussing a reference by Isaac Satanov to black slavery, Schorsch notes: One cannot gauge from this brief comment whether Satanov knew about the abolitionist movements beginning to agitate in England and France at the time. Satanov's reportage was remarkably non-committal, betraying little, if any, sympathy for these developments. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009412000025 |