The lively life of a ‘dead’ language

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface 1
5. Part I. Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis
6. Introduction 13
7. Post-exilic Jewish languages and pidgins/creoles: Two mutually clarifying perspectives 19
8. Nothing new under the sun: A case study of alternatives in language and ethnocultural identity 37
9. Shprakhikeyt in hayntikn yisroyel 68
10. Part II. Yiddish in America
11. Introduction: Birth of a voting bloc: Candidates pay court to Hasidic and Orthodox Jews 75
12. Yiddish in America 81
13. Nathan Birnbaum’s view of American Jewry 161
14. Yidish, modernizatsye un reetnifikatsye: an ernster un faktndiker tsugang tsu der itstiker problematik 172
15. Part III. Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow
16. Introduction 183
17. The phenomenological and linguistic pilgrimage of Yiddish: Some examples of functional and structural pidginization and depidginization 189
18. Why did Yiddish change? 203
19. Modeling rationales in corpus planning: Modernity and tradition in images of the good corpus 217
20. Part IV. Status Planning: The Tshernovits conference of 1908
21. Introduction 233
22. Nathan Birnbaum’s ‘second phase’: The champion of Yiddish and Jewish cultural autonomy 239
23. Nosn birnboyms dray tshernovitser konferentsn 248
24. Attracting a following to high culture functions for a language of everyday life: The role of the Tshernovits Conference in the rise of Yiddish 255
25. Der hebreysher opruf af der tsernovitser konferents 284
26. Part V. Stock-taking: Where are we now?
27. Starting with the future 293
28. The sociology of Yiddish after the holocaust: Status, needs and possibilities 301
29. How does Yiddish differ? 313
30. The lively life of a ‘dead’ language 325
31. Vos ken zayn di funktsye fun yidish in yisroyel? 342
32. References 351
33. Appendix: Statistical Tables: Yiddish in the USA, Israel, The Czarist Empire, the USSR, Poland and Other Countries (20th Century) 377
34. List of Tables 379
35. Index 493