Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language]

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVI I
2. The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword
3. PART I: SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON YIDDISH 1
4. PART II: ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW 5
5. PART III: MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES 12
6. PART IV: HISTORIC MOMENTS 24
7. PART V: FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE 28
8. PART VI: MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT 49
9. REFERENCES 64
10. PART I SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
11. The Reality of Jewishness versus the Ghetto Myth: The Sociolinguistic Roots of Yiddish 100
12. The Yiddish Language: Its Cultural Impact 119
13. Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur [Concerning the Ethnohistorical Role of Yiddish and Yiddish Culture] 129
14. Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language] 141
15. PART II ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW
16. A Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature 158
17. Yidishkeyt un yidish [Jewishness and Yiddish] 173
18. 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] 177
19. Geule fun loshn [Redemption of Language] 181
20. The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic Communities 197
21. Who Needs Yiddish? 219
22. Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies 227
23. PART III MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES
24. Di fir klasn [The Four Categories] 256
25. Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish [Matesyohu Mizes (Mattathias Mieses) and the Polemic about Yiddish] 267
26. Zhitlovsky and American Jewry 291
27. Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! [We Accuse and Demand Responsibility!] 297
28. 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’] 313
29. An ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents [An Open Letter to Our Yiddishist Intelligentsia] 343
30. Who Needs Yiddish? A Study in Language and Ethics 349
31. PART IV HISTORIC MOMENTS
32. 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’ 369
33. 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] 395
34. Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet [On the Inauguration of the Yiddish Chair at the University in Jerusalem] 409
35. Address at the Dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 427
36. 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] 431
37. PART V FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE: THE PRESS, LITERATURE, THEATER, SCHOOLS
38. Der ‘bund’ un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul [The ‘Bund’ and the Idea of a Yiddish-Secular School] 439
39. Tsvey shprakhn–eyneyntsike literatur [Two Languages – One Literature] 463
40. Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto [Yiddish Courses for Teachers in the (Nazi) Ghetto of Lodz] 479
41. The Night of the Murdered Poets 485
42. An Educational Assessment of the Yiddish Secular School Movements in the United States 495
43. The American Yiddish Press at Its Centennial 513
44. Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish Theater 523
45. Yiddish in the University 529
46. PART VI MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT
47. Di yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn [The Yiddish Language in Our Private Life] 548
48. The Struggle for Yiddish During World War I: The Attitude of German Jewry 565
49. Di shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln [The Languages of Jews in Independent Poland] 591
50. Lebediker untergang [Lively Death]/A loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl [A Language for Always, Not Just for a While] 609
51. Yiddish in Melbourne 619
52. Knowledge, Use, and Evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish College Students 635
53. PART VII SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PLANNING
54. Vegn zhargon oysleygn [About Spelling Zhargon ( = Yiddish)] 654
55. Undzer mame-loshn [Our Mother Tongue] 663
56. Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln [Concerning the Litvak (= Northeastern) Dialect in Congress Poland] Zeyer gerekht [Absolutely Right] B. (= Shloyme Birnboym) 667
57. he ‘Hidden Standard’: A Study of Competing Influences in Standardization 671
58. Politics and Linguistics in the Standardization of Soviet Yiddish 699
59. Some Aspects of the Use of Pronouns of Address in Yiddish 709
60. Bilingualism and Dialect Mixture Among Lubavitcher Hasidic Children 721
61. Epilogue: Contributions of the Sociology of Yiddish to the General Sociology of Language 739
62. Original Sources 757
63. Index 761