[Cz-L] Reflections on the Centennial Czernowitz Conference

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 from http://www.yivoinstitute.org/uploads/files/yivo_yedies205.pdf
Reflections on the Centennial Czernowitz Conference

by Jess Olson

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the
Czernowitz Yiddish Conference of 1908, the
Max Weinreich Center held a symposium on
July 30 (see Yiddish p. =D7=92). One of the participants,
Professor Jess Olson of Yeshiva University,
also attended the centennial conference
held this past summer in Czernowitz
itself. He reflects here on that experience.

This year marked the 100th anniversary of a unique event in the history =
of the Yiddish language. In August 1908 the first and only conference on =
the Yiddish language was held in Czernowitz, the provincial capital of =
Bukovina in the far eastern Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Chernivtsi, =
Ukraine). The conference=E2=80=99s aims were nothing less than to plan =
the future of Yiddish as a modern Jewish language, giving it a fixed =
grammar, syntax, spelling system, and more: a future for its literature =
and theater, and a rethinking of its history and place as a national =
Jewish langauge. Its participants included major Yiddish literary and =
political notables, including H. D. Nomberg, Sholem Asch, Chaim =
Zhitlovsky, Ester Frumkin, and, most famously, Y. L. Peretz.

-snip- [rest of article can be viewed on page 20 by following the link above - Moderator Bruce]

Jess Olson is an assistant professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva =
University

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