Journey to Oblivion : : The End of the East European Yiddish and German Worlds in the Mirror of Literature / / Peter A. Stenberg.
Before the Second World War, some 25 million people in Eastern Europe spoke Yiddish or German. Their numbers had grown over 750 years. The two language groups spread and developed in relative isolation from each other, though they occupied much the same territory and experienced similar fates during...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. German and Yiddish A Case of Awkward Family Relations
- Chapter Two. The (relatively) Gentle Decline Yiddish and the Modern World
- Chapter Three. Germans in a Russian War
- Chapter Four. Whatever Happened to Tevye?
- Chapter Five. The Germans of Eastern Europe Pay the Price
- Notes
- Appendix. Information on Authors
- Selected Bibliography
- Index