Language politics and language survival
Subtitle: Yiddish among the Haredim in post-war Britain
By: Bruce Mitchell.
Series: Collection de la Revue des études juives -- 40
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris; Dudley, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9782877239370; 9789042917842
Subjects: Yiddish language -- Great Britain -- History.; Ultra-Orthodox Jews -- Great Britain -- Language.; Jiddisch.; Orthodoxe joden.; Great Britain -- Languages.; Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165).
Table of contents: title: The historical necessity of the present study; title: Sociohistorical aspects of Yiddish in Britain prior to 1945; title: The post-war reality : Yiddish as a Haredi phenomenon in Great Britain; title: Post-war ideologies of language among Britain's Haredim; title: Yiddish dialects and orthography in Britain's post-war Haredi communities; title: The sociological function of Yiddish language.