Jiddisch: Geschichte und Kultur einer Weltsprache - Softcover

Aptroot, Marion; Gruschka, Roland

 
9783406804069: Jiddisch: Geschichte und Kultur einer Weltsprache

Synopsis

The standard work for the Yiddish

The Yiddish language, with its German, Hebrew and Slavic components, is a fascinating reflection of the long history and culture of Jews in Europe. The small standard work describes the history of Yiddish from the oldest medieval texts to the Yiddish cultures of Eastern Europe to the great Yiddish novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the Shoah and to present-day Yiddish in the United States and Israel.

This book provides a unique overview of the history of Yiddish from the oldest medieval texts to the Yiddish cultures of Eastern Europe to the great Yiddish novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the Shoah and to present-day Yiddish in the United States and Isreal. It goes far beyond a pure language history, because the Yiddish language with its German, Hebrew and Slavic components is a fascinating reflection of Jewish culture and history: migrations of Jews to Eastern Europe or to the USA, encounters with other languages and cultures as well as inner Jewish developments have found their reflection in Yiddish and different cultural stcurves. Yiddish serves as a language of tradition and religion as well as the language of avant-garde and modernism. Since the 19th century, Yiddish developed into a modern world and literary language and is today a living language that means more to its speakers and lovers than the nostalgic memory of European Jewry destroyed in World War II.


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