Held to commemorate the historic meeting of prominent Jews to promote Yiddish in Czernowitz in 1908 (back cover).
"This volume is based on the conference papers presented on 19-21 April 1998 by the University of Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies"--p.ix.
Subsequently made the first vol. of: Studies in Yiddish.
Contains a list of contributors.
Includes index.
Yiddish in the contemporary world : papers of the first Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish. ISBN 1900755335. Published by Legenda in 1999. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.