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. Jeffrey
Shandler tells the multifaceted history of Yiddish in the form of a
biographical profile, revealing surprising insights through a
series of thematic chapters. He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as
the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always
used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized
minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to
other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been
questioned. But some devoted Yiddish speakers have championed the
language as embodying the essence of Jewish culture and a defining
feature of a Jewish national identity. Despite predictions of the
demise of Yiddish-dating back well before half of its speakers were
murdered during the Holocaust-the language leads a vibrant,
evolving life to this day.
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