A Citizen of Yiddishland - Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland

This study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. A biography of Dovid Sfard allows us to see the whole panorama of Jewish choices in 20th-century Eastern Europe.