Bilingualism in the History of Jewish LiteratureThis is both a history of Jewish bilingualism and a plea for an end to the Hebrew-Yiddish quarrel over a single genuine Jewish language. Niger was the greatest Yiddish literary critic of his day. Contents: Introduction: Jewish Bilingualism, Then and Now; Latin and Hebrew, Italian and Yiddish; Greek and Chinese Bilingualism; Armenian and Welsh Bilingualism; Early Jewish Bilingualism: Hebrew and Aramaic; Literary Bilingualism; The Development of Early Hebrew-Yiddish Bilingualism; The Bilingual Literature of Jewish Mysticism, Morality, and Chasidism; The Bilingual Literature of the Jewish Enlightenment; Early Jewish Bilingualism in America; The Tshernovits Language Conference of 1908 and the Question of Jewish Bilingualism; Extremism and Bilingualism in the Zionist and Socialist Movements; The Influence of Soviet Russia and the Land of Israel on Jewish Bilingualism; Jewish Bilingualism: Traditions, Problems, Prospects. |
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Shmuel Niger | 1 |
Acknowledgements and a Note on | 7 |
Latin and Hebrew Italian and Yiddish | 15 |
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