De Gruyter, a major German publishing house specializing in academic literature, published a book entitled Socialist Yiddishlands dedicated to the role of Yiddish in post-WWII socialist states, including Poland, the USSR, the German Democratic Republic and Romania. The volume, edited by Miriam Chorley-Schulz and Alexander Walther, also uncovers diverse cultural Yiddish-related initiatives during the Cold War era between the Eastern Bloc and such Western countries as the US, Great Britain and Israel.