Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein New Year "--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Zubin Mehta and Joshua Bell

Paula Vogel is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of How I Learned to Drive

and her famous testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee

an impressively comprehensive guidebook cum statistical primer

Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein New Year "--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"An engaging and thought provoking analysis, . . . a pioneering foray into a new field of study, 'Jews and Empires in History.'" Slavic ReviewOn the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries. What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? To answer these questions, Sarah