The Meaning of YiddishWith a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language. This title is pa |
Contents
Internal Polylingualism and the Tradition | 9 |
External Polylingualism | 24 |
The Components of Yiddish | 32 |
Ashkenazi Hebrew and Hebrew Merged in Yiddish | 51 |
The Openness of Yiddish | 61 |
3 | 74 |
4 | 89 |
Structural Components | 98 |
Internal Criticism of the Jewish Existence | 128 |
The Positive Impulse | 135 |
The Peculiar Nature of Jewish Literary History | 143 |
Yiddish and Hebrew LiteratureAn Intertwined | 150 |
Yiddish Poetry in America | 161 |
The Major Trends | 169 |
A Modernist Poetics | 175 |
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