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2020
This book provides an introduction to Yiddish, the foundational vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, both as a subject of interest in its own right and for the distinctive issues that Yiddish raises for the study of languages generally, including language diaspora, language fusion, multilingualism, language ideologies, and postvernacularity.
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This book provides an introduction to Yiddish, the foundational vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, both as a subject of interest in its own right and for the distinctive issues that Yiddish raises for the study of languages generally, including language diaspora, language fusion, multilingualism, language ideologies, and postvernacularity.
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Yiddishless Yiddish Power vs Powerless Yiddish
2015Looking at the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, things called ‘Yiddish’ can be a ticket to various kinds of personal and institutional empowerment to attain prestige or profit, and even some political gain for both left (and far left) and right (and far right).
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The Holiness of Yiddish: Who Says Yiddish is Holy and Why?
Language Policy, 2002The pace of sanctifying profane vernaculars is speeding up and the process is spreading outside of its European primary base. The sanctification of Yiddish as revealed in writing about the language suggests a number of distinctions within sanctity as well as crucial associations with special individuals, literary works, kinship relationships and ...
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The Emergence of Common Eastern Yiddish (Proto-Standard Yiddish)
1993AbstractThe continuous modernization was literally the constant production of new and fresh features and concepts. Grammatical reconstruction and future-tense auxiliary are some examples of these. The different regional dialects in Eastern Yiddish languages have produced an entirely new literature language, springing forth to become the modern and ...
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