Yiddish A Nation of Words

Name: Yiddish A Nation of Words
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ISBN: 9780345447302

ISBN-10: 0345447301

ISBN-13: 9780345447302

Edition: N/A

Authors: Miriam Weinstein

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About a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them. It included Hebrew, a touch of the Romance and Slavic languages, and a large helping of German. In a world of earthly wandering, this pungent, witty, and infinitely nuanced speech, full of jokes, puns, and ironies, became the linguistic home of the Jews, the bond that held a people together. Here is the remarkable story of how this humble language took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe; how it achieved a rich literary flowering between the wars in Europe and America; how it was…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Timeline


Cast of Characters


A Note on Yiddish Spelling


Map of Yiddish Lands


Introduction: Talking Jewish



Birth and Growth



Long as the Jewish Exile



Poland: Rest Here



Shtetl: A Separate World



Enlightenment and Hasidism: The Head and the Heart



The Modern Era



Eastern Europe: Opening the Gates



The Road to Czernowitz: The Politics of Language



Russia: Kissed by a Thief



The Soviet Union: Marching and Singing to Birobidzhan



Israel: Language Wars in the Holy Land



America: The Golden Land



Poland: Drinking in the World



Eastern Europe: Language as History



Annihilation



Singing in the Face of Death



Aftermath



Europe: Life from the Ashes



America: Golden Land, Goyish Land



Russia: The Heartthrob Yiddish Poet



Israel: A New Nation, a New Tongue



Present and Future



Europe and Israel: Bulletins from Now



America: Preserving Tomorrow's Song


Glossary


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index