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Listening to the Languages of the People - Lazare Sainean on Romanian, Yiddish, and French (Hardcover)
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Listening to the Languages of the People - Lazare Sainean on Romanian, Yiddish, and French (Hardcover)
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This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a
fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and
political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Lazar Saineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was
a pioneer in his native Romania, seeking out the popular elements
in culture along with high literary ones. He was among the first to
publish a study of Yiddish as a genuine language, and he uncovered
Turkish features in Romanian language and customs. He also made an
index of hundreds of Romanian folktales. Yet when he sought
Romanian citizenship and a professorship, he was blocked by
powerful figures who thought Jews could not be Romanians and who
fancied the origins of Romanian culture to be wholly Latin. Faced
with anti-Semitism, some of his friends turned to Zionism. Instead
he tried baptism, which brought him only mockery and shame. Hoping
to find a polity to which he could belong, Saineanu moved with his
family to Paris in 1900 and became Lazare Sainean. There he made
innovative studies of French popular speech and slang, culminating
in his great work on the language of Rabelais. Once again, he was
contributing to the development of a national tongue. Even then,
while welcomed by literary scholars, Sainean was unable to get a
permanent university post. Though a naturalized citizen of France,
he felt himself a foreigner, an "intruder," into his old age.
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