Yiddish: Biography of a Language

by Jeffrey Shandler

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 turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190651962
• ISBN13: 9780190651961
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"