Yiddish

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806503479Author Fred KogosFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538761Author Lita EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609806920Author Leo RostenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 822gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

This handy dictionary and phrasebook provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or businesspeople communicate when visiting Yiddish communities in Jerusalem, London, New York, and many other major cities around the...

No other description available.About the AuthorElli Kohen and Dahlia Kohen-GordonBook InformationISBN 9780781806589Author Elli KohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 602Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780028633879Author Benjamin BlechFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 640g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061132179Author Michael WexFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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...

The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture. David Fishman examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as...

No other description available.Book InformationISBN 9780781804394Author David C. GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914512509Author Uriel WeinreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 856Imprint Yivo Institute for Jewish ResearchPublisher Yivo Institute for Jewish...

A Middle High German Reader With Grammar, Notes and GlossaryBook InformationISBN 9780198720829Author M. O'C. WalsheFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

Written entirely in Yiddish, this innovative and accessible language text provides opportunities for intermediate level students of Yiddish to improve their conversational skills, grammar, and vocabulary. It includes numerous written exercises designed...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256299Author Jerold C FrakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922320568Author Chantel StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Vaclav VrbenskyPublisher Vaclav VrbenskyWeight(grams) 236g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938436208Author Ilene SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Aakenbaaken & KentPublisher Aakenbaaken & KentWeight(grams) 222g

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

"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...

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...