Description This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch\'s epic trilogy Three Cities .
Whereas Asch portrayed Jewish life in St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow at the crucial historical moment of the collapse of the Russian Empire, this volume examines the variety of Yiddish publishing, educational, literary, academic, and theatrical activities in the former imperial metropolises from the late nineteenth through to the late t.
Description This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch\'s epic trilogy Three Cities