Yidish be-siman ḳeriʼah
Subtitle: mi-leshon dibur li-śefat tarbut = Yiddish-- the linguistic leap : from a common dialect to a cultural and literary langauge
By: Natan Kohen
Publisher: Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Yerushalayim
Language: heb
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9789652273642
Subjects: Yiddish language; Yiddish literature; History and criticism; Yiddish newspapers; History; Jewish publishing; Jewish libraries
Other titles: Yiddish-- the linguistic leap :
Description: From spoken language to cultural language traces changes that have taken place in the Jews of Eastern Europe through the vibrant book market, which has provided diverse content in Yiddish to various target audiences; And through the development of the public library, the press, the publishers, the translations in front of original books, and the changing status of Yiddish, the "language of the masses," compared to Russian from here and Hebrew from here. A comprehensive and in-depth study in the field of cultural history, which describes, through the multifaceted branching of secular reading in Yiddish, a society that is in the process of transitioning from tradition to modernity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-450) and index

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