Open AccessTracing the Scholarly Legacy of I.M. Pul’ner: A Detour through the Pages of Sovetish Heymland
Author(s) -
Deborah Yalen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
judaic-slavic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3364
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3364.2019.1.1.4
Subject(s) - judaism , ethnography , nazism , state (computer science) , section (typography) , soviet union , period (music) , history , art history , political science , law , art , archaeology , aesthetics , politics , algorithm , computer science , advertising , business
This article explores the scholarly legacy of I.M. Pul’ner, director of the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad from the late 1930s until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and considers the significance of material culture for Soviet Jewish ethnography during the interwar period. It also traces the rediscovery of Pul’ner by Soviet Jewish intellectuals in the 1970s, and the global journey of a long-lost archival document, which is now preserved at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City.