Never say die! : : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters / / edited by Joshua A. Fishman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fishman, Joshua A.
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague ;, New York : : Mouton,, [1981]; 1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the sociology of language ; 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (780 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Added title page: Lo amut, ki ehyeh.; English and Yiddish.
• Other title: Sociology of Yiddish: a foreword /; Reality of Jewishness versus the ghetto myth /; Yiddish language: its cultural impact /; Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur /; Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn /; Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish literature /; Yidishkeyt un yidish /; Rekht fun 'loshn ashkenaz' bay dintoyres: der vilner goen un yidish /; Geule fun loshn /; Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic! Communities /; Who needs Yiddish? /; Sounds of modern orthodoxy: the language of talmud studies /; Fir klasn /; Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish /; Zhitlovsky and American Jewry /; Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! /; Blik az yidish iz der tamtsis fun yidishkayt--di sakone fun der formule 'lingvistish-sekularistish' /; Ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents /; Who needs Yiddish? A study in language and ethics /; Attracting a following to high-culture functions for a language of everyday life: the role of the Tshernovits language conference in the 'rise of Yiddish' /; Yidishe shprakh af der tog-ordenung fun der sholem-konferents in pariz, 1919 /; Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet /; Address at the dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 /; Deklaratsye fun der velt-konferents far yidish un yidisher kultur ... oygust 1976 --; 'Bund' un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul /; Tsvey shprakhn-eyneyntsike literatur /; Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto /; Night of the murdered poets /; Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States /; Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish theater /; Yiddish in the university /; Yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn /; Struggle for Yiddish during World War I: the attitude of German Jewry /; Shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln /; Lebediker untergang/ a loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl /; Yiddish in Melbourne /; Knowledge, use, and evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish college students /; Vegn zhargon oysleygn /; Undzer mame-loshn /; Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln /; Zeyer gerekht /; Hidden standard: a study of competing influences in standardization /; Politics and linguistics in the standardization of Soviet Yiddish /; Some aspects of the use of pronouns of address in Yiddish /; Bilingualism and dialect mixture among Lubavitcher hasidic children /; Epilogue: contributions of the sociology of Yiddish to the general sociology of language /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographies and index.
• ISBN: 9789027979780; 9783110820805
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Joshua A. Fishman.