The Meaning of Yiddish 1st Edition by Benjamin Harshav ISBN 0520319621 9780520319622

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ISBN 10: 0520319621 
ISBN 13: 9780520319622
Author: Benjamin Harshav

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

The Meaning of Yiddish 1st Table of contents:

1 Language and History
A Language New and Old
The History of Yiddish and Jewish History
A Language of a Polylingual Society
Internal Polylingualism and the Tradition of Jewish Learning
External Polylingualism
2 The Nature of Yiddish
A Language of Fusion
The Components of Yiddish
Ashkenazi Hebrew and Hebrew Merged in Yiddish
The Openness of Yiddish
3 Some Sociological Aspects
How Old Is Yiddish?
Yiddish Dialects
The Yiddish Alphabet
A Few Words on the Fate of Yiddish
4 The Semiotics of Yiddish Communication
Language and Social Psychology
Thematic Components
Structural Components
Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Milkman
Halpern’s Political Talk-Verse
Questions
5 The Modern Jewish Revolution
Prelude: The Jewish Enlightenment
Defeat and Victory of the Enlightenment
Responses from Within: Literature, Ideology, Migration, Assimilation
Internal Criticism of the Jewish Existence
The Centrifugal Trend: Not Here, Not Like Now, Not As We Are
The External Context
The Positive Impulse
Outlook: The Jewish Revolution and the Period of Modernism
6 The Historical Perspective of Modern Yiddish Literature
The Optimist Opening
The Peculiar Nature of Jewish Literary History
The Poets’ Relation to Literary History
Yiddish and Hebrew Literature— an Intertwined History
7 Yiddish Poetry in America
American Literature in Yiddish
The Social Setting
The Major Trends
8 Introspectivism: A Modernist Poetics
9 The End of a Language

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