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Yiddish and Power / by D. Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, D., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities, 2947-5899
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Middle East.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Linguistics.
- Social history.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Linguistics--Methodology.
- Middle Eastern Culture.
- Social History.
- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle Eastern Culture.
- Linguistics.
- Social History.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.
- Contents:
- 12 Secular Power13 Party Politics; IV: Modernity; 14 Interwar Encounters with Official Status; 15 Yiddishless Yiddish Power vs Powerless Yiddish; Bibliography; Index; Index of Yiddish Words
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781349355211
- 1349355216
- 9781137475756
- 1137475757
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