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.

Table of Contents

Sociology of Yiddish: a foreword / Joshua A. Fishman -- Reality of Jewishness versus the ghetto myth / Max Weinreich -- Yiddish language: its cultural impact / Yudel Mark -- Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur / Shmuel Niger -- Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn / Avrom Golomb -- Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish literature / Israel Zinberg -- Yidishkeyt un yidish / Sore Shenirer -- Rekht fun 'loshn ashkenaz' bay dintoyres: der vilner goen un yidish / Yitskhok Rivkind -- Geule fun loshn / Solomon Birnbaum -- Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic! Communities / Solomon Poll -- Who needs Yiddish? / Shimon Susholtz -- Sounds of modern orthodoxy: the language of talmud studies / S.C. Heilman -- Fir klasn / Y.M. Lifshits -- Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish / G. Kresl -- Zhitlovsky and American Jewry / Emanuel S. Goldsmith -- Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! / Zerubovl -- Blik az yidish iz der tamtsis fun yidishkayt--di sakone fun der formule 'lingvistish-sekularistish' / Leibush Lehrer -- Ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents / Ben-adir -- Who needs Yiddish? A study in language and ethics / Joseph C. Landis -- 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' / Joshua A. Fishman -- Yidishe shprakh af der tog-ordenung fun der sholem-konferents in pariz, 1919 / Yoysef Tenenboym -- Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet / M. Shneyerson ... [et al.] -- Address at the dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 / Golda Meir -- Deklaratsye fun der velt-konferents far yidish un yidisher kultur ... oygust 1976 -- 'Bund' un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul / Kh. Sh. Kazhdan -- Tsvey shprakhn-eyneyntsike literatur / Bal-makhshoves -- Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto / Y.L. Gersht -- Night of the murdered poets / Judah L. Graubart -- Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States / B.Z. Goldberg -- Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish theater / Harold Clurman -- Yiddish in the university / Leonard Prager -- Yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn / M. Olgin -- Struggle for Yiddish during World War I: the attitude of German Jewry / Zosa Szajkowski -- Shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln / Yankev Leshtshinski -- Lebediker untergang/ a loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl / Yankev Glatshteyn -- Yiddish in Melbourne / F. Manfred Klarberg -- Knowledge, use, and evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish college students / Alan Hudson-Edwards -- Vegn zhargon oysleygn / Sholem Aleichem -- Undzer mame-loshn / G. Zelikovitsh -- Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln / Note Berliner -- Zeyer gerekht / B. [Solomon Birnbaum] -- Hidden standard: a study of competing influences in standardization / Mordkhe Schaechter -- Politics and linguistics in the standardization of Soviet Yiddish / Rachel Erlich -- Some aspects of the use of pronouns of address in Yiddish / Dan I. Slobin -- Bilingualism and dialect mixture among Lubavitcher hasidic children / George Jochnowitz -- Epilogue: contributions of the sociology of Yiddish to the general sociology of language / Joshua A. Fishman.