Yiddish

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461170020Author Miriam HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 1166gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 35mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999336571Author Miriam HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Yiddishkayt Initiative, Inc.Publisher Yiddishkayt Initiative, Inc.Weight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648678885Author Chantel StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Vaclav VrbenskyPublisher Vaclav VrbenskyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish among the haredim in post-war Britain" outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is used among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in contemporary Britain. The language policies of these...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yiddish was widely viewed, even by many of its speakers, as a corrupt form of German that Jews had to abandon if they hoped to engage in serious intellectual, cultural, or political work. Yet, by 1917 it was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Yiddish) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780345447302Author Miriam WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballantine Books Inc...

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly allows for national standard varieties, and the notion of...