YDSH 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tevye, Moses Montefiore, Haskalah
7 Sep 2016
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Film screening at the art house theater and q&a human resources manager. Assignment due on wednesday: what info do we get from the text that tells us about the character, tone. Pogrom: raiding of jewish area/village/town by local russian peasants (slavic) that includes rape, pillage and murder: happen in waves, state supported, police do nothing. Haskalah: people who practice it are maskilim. Zionism: one direction that the haskalah takes. Recognition that most jews don"t speak hebrew: speak language of the ruling country, speak yiddish. Yiddish: considered low brow language, spoken by housewives, low class , trying to transform language. Shalamalechem documentary and fiddler on the roof. New social equality jews will be of equal status to other in society: yiddish socialism. Yiddish socialists are at war with the hebrew nationalists. Wwi russian revolution and a socialist state is created: crack down on the arts (art is dangerous to communism)
