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This talk traces how Yiddish, brought to New York by Hasidic Holocaust survivors after World War II, was maintained as a thriving language of everyday life. Drawing on archival, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research, it examines how these communities leveraged New York’s unique urban conditions—demographic scale, neighborhood density, economic niches, and legal pluralism—to establish schools, newspapers, |
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Since the Enlightenment, Hasidic Judaism has opposed modern liberal nationalism, seeing it as antithetical to pious Jewish life. After the Second World War, as the Hasidic diaspora reconstituted itself in new shtetls like Williamsburg and Stamford Hill, leaders attempted to separate the community from the societies around them, with external dealings being approached transactionally. Since |
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