Yiddish turning to life - Fishman, Joshua A. (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991)
English and Yiddish. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-375) and index
YIDDISH: TURNING TO LIFE; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Preface; A "late bloomer"; Weinreich's history of the Yiddish language; Teaching and editing efforts; Topical foci; I. Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Introduction; Post-exilic Jewish languages andpidgins/creoles: two mutually clarifying perspectives; Introduction; The multicomponential nature of post-exilic Jewish languages; The dialect nature of PEJLs; Language genesis: two substantially different scenarios; Intragroup literacy: two different scenarios; Comparison on Stewartian attributes
Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus