The People of the Book(s): On Jewish Reading Habits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Abstract

Review of: Nathan Cohen, Yiddish Transformed: Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860–1914, trans. Rebecca Wolpe, New York–Oxford, 2023, Berghahn Books, 431 pp.; Dan Tsahor, The Book of the People: The Hebrew Encyclopedic Project and the National Self, Berlin–Boston, 2023, de Gruyter, 228 pp. (Studia Judaica, 117); Marat Grinberg, Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines, Waltham, 2023, Brandeis University Press, 284 pp. (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)