Soviet Yiddish
Subtitle: language planning and linguistic development
By: Gennady Estraikh.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Yiddish language -- Soviet Union -- History.
Description: This is the first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reforms - from the state of the language in pre-Revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s - is recreated from contemporary publications and archival materials. Later chapters draw on the author's own experience as a Yiddish writer and lexicographer in Moscow.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-200) and indexes.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford) presented under the title: Origin and features of Soviet Yiddish.