The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions:  Jews and Other Differen)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780804735759
Subjects: Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Sociolinguistics; Yiddish Literature; Yiddish Language; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Germanic & Scandinavian languages; Yiddish; Literary Criticism; Jewish; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: By the beginning of the twentieth century, both Yiddish literature and the Yiddish language-then spoken by the majority of Jews around the world-were well-established vehicles of communication and culture, mediating to their readers masterpieces of world literature as well as modem ideologies and political and social events.