Never Say Die! : : A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters / / ed. by Joshua A. Fishman.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aleykhem, Sholem,; Berliner, Note,; Birnboym, Shloyme,; Clurman, Harold,; Dinaburg, B.,; Erlich, Rachel,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Gersht, Y. L.,; Glatshteyn, Yankev,; Goldberg, B. Z.,; Goldsmith, Emanuel S.,; Golomb, Avrom,; Graubart, Judah L.,; Grinberg, Kh.,; Heilman, S. C.,; Hudson-Edwards, Alan,; Jochnowitz, George,; Kazhdan, Kh. Sh.,; Klarberg, F. Manfred,; Kresl, G.,; Landis, Joseph C.,; Leshtshinski, Yankev,; Lexer, Leybesh,; Lifshits, Y. M.,; Mark, Yudl,; Meyer, Golde,; Niger, Shmuel,; Olgin, M.,; Parker, Sandra,; Pinski, D.,; Poll, Solomon,; Prager, Leonard,; Rivkind, Yitskhok,; Sadan, D.,; Shekhter, Mordkhe,; Shenirer, Sore,; Shneyerson, M.,; Shvabe, M.,; Sigl, L.,; Slobin, Dan I.,; Susholtz, Shimon,; Szajkowski, Zosa,; Tenenboym, Yoysef,; Tsinberg, Yisroel,; Vaynraykh, Maks,; Zelikovitsh, G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fishman, Joshua A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (763 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

• I-XVI
• The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword
• PART I: SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON YIDDISH
• PART II: ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW
• PART III: MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES
• PART IV: HISTORIC MOMENTS
• PART V: FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE
• PART VI: MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT
• REFERENCES
• PART I SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• The Reality of Jewishness versus the Ghetto Myth: The Sociolinguistic Roots of Yiddish
• The Yiddish Language: Its Cultural Impact
• Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur [Concerning the Ethnohistorical Role of Yiddish and Yiddish Culture]
• Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language]
• PART II ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW
• A Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature
• Yidishkeyt un yidish [Jewishness and Yiddish]
• Di rekht fun ‘loshn ashkenaz’ bay dintoyres [The Rights of Yiddish in Suits in Rabbinic Courts] / Der vilner goen un yidish [The Sage of Vilna and Yiddish]
• Geule fun loshn [Redemption of Language]
• The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic Communities
• Who Needs Yiddish?
• Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies
• PART III MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES
• Di fir klasn [The Four Categories]
• Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish [Matesyohu Mizes (Mattathias Mieses) and the Polemic about Yiddish]
• Zhitlovsky and American Jewry
• Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! [We Accuse and Demand Responsibility!]
• Der blik az yidish iz der tamtsis fun yidishkayt – di sakone fun der formule ‘lingvistish-sekularistish’ [The View that Yiddish is the Quintessence of Jewishness – The Danger of the Formulation ‘Linguistic-Secularistic’]
• An ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents [An Open Letter to Our Yiddishist Intelligentsia]
• Who Needs Yiddish? A Study in Language and Ethics
• PART IV HISTORIC MOMENTS
• 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’
• Di yidishe shprakh af der tog-ordenung fun der sholem-konferents in pariz, 1919 [The Yiddish Language on the Agenda of the Peace Conference in Paris, 1919]
• Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet [On the Inauguration of the Yiddish Chair at the University in Jerusalem]
• Address at the Dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970
• Deklaratsye fun der velt-konferents far yidish un yidisher kultur in yerushelayem...dem 23stn–26stn oygust 1976 [Declaration of the World Conference for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture in Jerusalem... August 23–26, 1976]
• PART V FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE: THE PRESS, LITERATURE, THEATER, SCHOOLS
• Der ‘bund’ un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul [The ‘Bund’ and the Idea of a Yiddish-Secular School]
• Tsvey shprakhn–eyneyntsike literatur [Two Languages – One Literature]
• Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto [Yiddish Courses for Teachers in the (Nazi) Ghetto of Lodz]
• The Night of the Murdered Poets
• An Educational Assessment of the Yiddish Secular School Movements in the United States
• The American Yiddish Press at Its Centennial
• Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish Theater
• Yiddish in the University
• PART VI MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT
• Di yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn [The Yiddish Language in Our Private Life]
• The Struggle for Yiddish During World War I: The Attitude of German Jewry
• Di shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln [The Languages of Jews in Independent Poland]
• Lebediker untergang [Lively Death]/A loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl [A Language for Always, Not Just for a While]
• Yiddish in Melbourne
• Knowledge, Use, and Evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish College Students
• PART VII SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PLANNING
• Vegn zhargon oysleygn [About Spelling Zhargon ( = Yiddish)]
• Undzer mame-loshn [Our Mother Tongue]
• Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln [Concerning the Litvak (= Northeastern) Dialect in Congress Poland] Zeyer gerekht [Absolutely Right] B. (= Shloyme Birnboym)
• he ‘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
• Original Sources
• Index