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The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of
modern literary Yiddish, an issue of great significance in the
linguistic, literary, and social history of the Yiddish language.
The eighteenth century marked the turning point in the history of
literary Yiddish, a period of rapid linguistic assimilation to
German and Dutch in the West and, by sharp contrast, the increasing
cultural autonomy of Eastern European Jewry. Books printed in the
West reflected the impact of New High German and contemporary
Western Yiddish. Books published in Eastern Europe, the new centre
for Yiddish printing, used Eastern Yiddish both for new works and
for new editions of old Yiddish works. Dr Kerler examines hitherto
neglected Yiddish books from the period in order to analyse the
linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and shift from
old to nascent Modern Literary Yiddish within the broader context
of genre and literary traditions and in the framework of Yiddish
dialectology, grammar, and sociolinguistics. Many of the
grammatical norms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century
literary Yiddish are shown to have their origins in the eighteenth
century. A major work of linguistic scholarship, The Origins of
Modern Literary Yiddish is an important contribution to the study
of the crystallization process of literary languages, highlighting
in the case of Yiddish the dynamics of emergence in the absence of
the usual governmental support.
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