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Yiddish
- Biography of a Language
Engelsk Hardback
Yiddish
- Biography of a Language
Engelsk Hardback

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The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present.Jeffrey Shandler tells the multifaceted history of Yiddish in the form of a biographical profile, revealing surprising insights through a series of thematic chapters. He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned. But some devoted Yiddish speakers have championed the language as embodying the essence of Jewish culture and a defining feature of a Jewish national identity. Despite predictions of the demise of Yiddish-dating back well before half of its speakers were murdered during the Holocaust-the language leads a vibrant, evolving life to this day.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780190651961
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190651962
Udg. Dato:
20 jan 2021
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
243mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
20 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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