Yidisher Kultur Farband ( יידישער קולטור-פאַרבאַנד , YKUF , rarely called by its English [translated] name, the Jewish Culture Association ) was a Communist -oriented organization, formed for preserving and developing Yiddish culture in Yiddish and in English, through an art section, a writers' group, reading circles, and publications. YKUF was founded in Paris in September 1937 by Jewish Communists and their supporters as an international body to disseminate ideology to the Yiddish-reading and Yiddish-speaking community.
10-517: Farband may refer to: Yidisher Kultur Farband , YKUF, a.k.a. Jewish Culture Association, Communist-oriented organization founded 1937 Yidish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband , NJWA, a.k.a. Jewish National Workers Alliance, Labor Zionist-oriented American Jewish organization Far (band) Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband , SKIF Jewish Socialist Verband , aka Jewish Socialist Farband See also [ edit ] Verband Topics referred to by
20-823: A supplemental work, the "Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union ". The Congress also conducts yearly memorials in New York City in memory of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943 and in memory of the Soviet Yiddish writers murdered on August 12, 1952 (also known as the Night of the Murdered Poets ). This article about an organization in the United States
30-502: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yidisher Kultur Farband The organizing meeting was an international congress of Yiddish culture, the first to be held since the 1908 Czernowitz Conference for the Yiddish Language; about 100 delegates attended, including 11 from the United States. The first chairman of YKUF was the non-Communist writer Alexander Mukdoni;
40-525: The World Congress for Jewish Culture or, in Yiddish, der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-kongres) is a secular organization founded in 1948 to promote Yiddish culture throughout the world. Individuals active in the founding of the organization included Yiddish writers and intellectuals such as Shmuel Niger , Chaim Grade , Avrom Reyzen , Shmerke Kaczerginski, and Pinkhos Schwartz. At its founding,
50-484: The journal Yidishe Kultur in 1938, initially a monthly, in recent decades it appeared bimonthly or seven times a year. Meisel, who was not a Communist Party member and had edited a Polish literary magazine, became its first editor; in 1964, he was succeeded by Itche Goldberg, who edited it since that time to 2004. With Goldberg's death, the magazine ceased publication. The political roots of YKUF were more of historical note than ideological tendency in its last decades. In
60-937: The mid-1990s, contact and rapprochement developed between YKUF and its historically socialist counterpart organization, the Congress for Jewish Culture , also based in New York, as well as the Congress’s publication, Zukunft ("Future"). They subsequently cooperated in such activities as commemorations of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , and memorials for the Soviet-Yiddish writers murdered in August 1952 in Moscow 's Lubyanka prison . Congress for Jewish Culture The Congress for Jewish Culture (also known as
70-793: The non-Communist artists and writers affiliated with YKUF left the organization. Branches of the international YKUF were established in various countries. The U.S. branch, founded in 1937, ceased operation soon after the death of Itche Goldberg on December 27, 2006. Prominent cultural figures, such as Kalman Marmor and Nachman Meisel, saw to it that Farlag YKUF, the organization’s New York -based publishing house, issued highly regarded anthologies and studies of Yiddish literature . It published more than 250 books, including Yiddish fiction and poetry, memoirs (by Reuben Brainin , among others), history, and anthologies such as America in Yiddish Literature (1961). The U.S. YKUF began publishing
80-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Farband . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farband&oldid=1155864051 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-671: The secretary (to 1957) was the poet Zishe Weinper, an efficient fundraiser for YKUF and, according to Melech Epstein , a "secret member of the Communist Party." In the U.S., financial support also came from the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, the Jewish section of the International Workers Order . At the time of the non-aggression pact between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in August 1939, many of
100-598: The society had offices in New York City , Buenos Aires and Paris . Today, only the New York office remains active. Since 1953 the Congress has published Die Zukunft (The Future, founded in 1892), the world's oldest Yiddish journal still in publication. It has also been an important publisher of Yiddish reference works and monographs , including the 8-volume "Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature" (co-edited by Shmuel Niger and Jacob Shatzky ) and
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