Never Say Die!: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters

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Never Say Die!

A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters

Edited by: Joshua A. Fishman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1981

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Volume 30 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Germanic Languages Germanic Languages, other

I-XVI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword
PART I: SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON YIDDISH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART II: ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
PART III: MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
PART IV: HISTORIC MOMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
PART V: FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
PART VI: MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
PART I SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Reality of Jewishness versus the Ghetto Myth: The Sociolinguistic Roots of Yiddish Maks Vaynraykh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
The Yiddish Language: Its Cultural Impact Yudl Mark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur [Concerning the Ethnohistorical Role of Yiddish and Yiddish Culture] Shmuel Niger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language] Avrom Golomb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
PART II ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW
A Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature Yisroel Tsinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
Yidishkeyt un yidish [Jewishness and Yiddish] Sore Shenirer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
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] Yitskhok Rivkind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Geule fun loshn [Redemption of Language] Shloyme Birnboym Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic Communities Solomon Poll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Who Needs Yiddish? Shimon Susholtz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies S. C. Heilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
PART III MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES
Di fir klasn [The Four Categories] Y. M. Lifshits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	256
Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish [Matesyohu Mizes (Mattathias Mieses) and the Polemic about Yiddish] G. Kresl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Zhitlovsky and American Jewry Emanuel S. Goldsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! [We Accuse and Demand Responsibility!] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
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’] Leybesh Lexer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
An ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents [An Open Letter to Our Yiddishist Intelligentsia] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Who Needs Yiddish? A Study in Language and Ethics Joseph C. Landis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
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’ Joshua A. Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
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] Yoysef Tenenboym Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet [On the Inauguration of the Yiddish Chair at the University in Jerusalem] M. Shneyerson, M. Shvabe, B. Dinaburg, D. Pinski, Kh. Grinberg, L. Sigl and D. Sadan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Address at the Dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 Golde Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
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] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	431
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] Kh. Sh. Kazhdan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
Tsvey shprakhn–eyneyntsike literatur [Two Languages – One Literature] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto [Yiddish Courses for Teachers in the (Nazi) Ghetto of Lodz] Y. L. Gersht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
The Night of the Murdered Poets Judah L. Graubart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
An Educational Assessment of the Yiddish Secular School Movements in the United States Sandra Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495
The American Yiddish Press at Its Centennial B. Z. Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish Theater Harold Clurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
Yiddish in the University Leonard Prager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	529
PART VI MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT
Di yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn [The Yiddish Language in Our Private Life] M. Olgin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	548
The Struggle for Yiddish During World War I: The Attitude of German Jewry Zosa Szajkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	565
Di shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln [The Languages of Jews in Independent Poland] Yankev Leshtshinski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	591
Lebediker untergang [Lively Death]/A loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl [A Language for Always, Not Just for a While] Yankev Glatshteyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	609
Yiddish in Melbourne F. Manfred Klarberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	619
Knowledge, Use, and Evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish College Students Alan Hudson-Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	635
PART VII SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PLANNING
Vegn zhargon oysleygn [About Spelling Zhargon ( = Yiddish)] Sholem Aleykhem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	654
Undzer mame-loshn [Our Mother Tongue] G. Zelikovitsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	663
Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln [Concerning the Litvak (= Northeastern) Dialect in Congress Poland] Zeyer gerekht [Absolutely Right] B. (= Shloyme Birnboym) Note Berliner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	667
he ‘Hidden Standard’: A Study of Competing Influences in Standardization Mordkhe Shekhter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	671
Politics and Linguistics in the Standardization of Soviet Yiddish Rachel Erlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	699
Some Aspects of the Use of Pronouns of Address in Yiddish Dan I. Slobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	709
Bilingualism and Dialect Mixture Among Lubavitcher Hasidic Children George Jochnowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	721
Epilogue: Contributions of the Sociology of Yiddish to the General Sociology of Language Joshua A. Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	739
Original Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	757
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	761

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December 14, 2010

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9783110820805

Hardcover published on:

September 1, 1981

Hardcover ISBN:

9789027979780

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Reprint 2010

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16

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763

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110820805

eBook ISBN: 9783110820805

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