Politics of Yiddish

Studies in Language, Literature and Society
Herausgeber: Kerler, Dov-Ber

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The geolinguistic aspects are obvious, especially in terms of preserving the culture 'of our fathers,' government language policies and social developments antithetical to Yiddish, and so on....It is undeniable that Yiddish serves as a busy battleground for liguists with strong opinions and also as a subject for non-Jewish siciolinguists interested in the conflicts between favored and less favored languages growing and others fading in popularity or prestige, etc. The Yinglish if I may call it that, in which this book is now and then written, Yiddish words and expressions popping up with great regularity in a basically English text, is also fascinating. That is still another linguistic phenomenon in which sociolinguists ought to take more interest than they have heretofore done.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780761990246
• ISBN-10: 0761990240
• Artikelnr.: 22782679

Autorenporträt

University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 On the Politics of Yiddish Part 3 Politics,
Ideology, and Scholarship Chapter 4 Yiddishism and Judaism Chapter 5
Yiddish language politics in the Ukraine (1930-1936) Chapter 6 What was
going on at the 1935 Yivo Conference? Chapter 7 The Czernowitz Conference
in retrospect Chapter 8 The politics of research on spoken Yiddish Part 9
Communities, Centres, and Cities Chapter 10 Yiddish socialist press in New
York, 1880s-1920s Chapter 11 Yiddish in orthodox communities of Jerusalem
Chapter 12 Shloyme Mikhoels and his theatre Chapter 13 Writers must eat:
the New York City Yiddish Writers Group of the Work Progress Administration
Chapter 14 Petticoat Lane and the North-West Passage (London, 1880-1940)
Chapter 15 Art and politics: the case of the New York Artef Theatre
(1925-1940) Part 16 Language, Folklore, and Literature Chapter 17 Zmires
Purim-the third phase of Jewish carnavalistic folk-literature Chapter 18
Dovid Bergelson's Bam Dnieper: a passport to Moscow Chapter 19 Dovid
Holfstein-our first wonder Chapter 20 The Aston corpus of Soviet Yiddish
lexicon Chapter 21 A Vilna folklorist's collection: Structural analysis of
Yiddish riddles Chapter 22 Mr Khauruchenka, Miss Shaihets, Mrs Hoika and
others: the origin of some other unusual family names Chapter 23 List of
contributors