The Systematic Interpretation of Gesture

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS VII
3. New Negation Constructions in Modern Hebrew 1
4. The Amarna Age Forerunners of Biblical Anti-Royalism 6
5. Notes on the Literary Idiom of the Baghdadi Jews 18
6. Louis Marshall and the Jewish Daily Forward: An Episode in Wartime Censorship, 1917-1918 31
7. A Note on the Monologue as a Literary Form: Sholem Aleichem's "Monologn" — A Test Case 44
8. U.S. Census Data on Mother Tongues: Review, Extrapolations and Predictions 51
9. Jewish Names in Early American Humor 63
10. Überreste Westjiddischer Dialekte in der Schweiz, im Eisass und in Süddeutschland 72
11. Crossing Water: A Folkloristic Motif 82
12. Channels of Systematic Extinction in Yiddish Dialects 93
13. The Creation of Accentual Iambs in European Poetry and Their First Employment in a Yiddish Romance in Italy (1508-09) 108
14. The Term Canaan in Medieval Hebrew 147
15. A Note on Methods of Research on the Economic History of the Jews 173
16. A Falasha Book of Jewish Festivals 183
17. The Systematic Interpretation of Gesture 192
18. The Jew and the Indian: Traces of a Confusion in the Hispanic Tradition 203
19. International Motifs in the Yiddish Ballad 209
20. Balkan and Slavic Elements in the Judeo-Spanish of Yugoslavia 229
21. Notes on the Languages of the Marranos and Sephardim in France 237
22. Western Traits in Transcarpathian Yiddish 245
23. The Ordeal of Bitter Waters and Andrea Del Sarto 265
24. Abstracts of Yiddish Articles 269
25. Abstracts of English Articles 286
26. Bibliography of Max Weinreich's Writings 305
27. Max Weinreich's Translation of Freud 319
28. The East European Versions of Tsene-Rene, 1786-1850 336
29. An Unknown Manuscript by Mendele Moykher-Sforim 344
30. The Two-Dimensional Conception of Reality in the World Image of Traditional East European Jewry 354
31. Gleanings from the Vocabulary of a 15th-Century Yiddish Manuscript Collection of Customs 368
32. Jacob Glatstein's Poetic Language 384
33. Formal Problems in the Study of Yiddish Proverbs 394
34. Gartl-henger 400
35. Hebraisms in the Yiddish of 17th-Century Central Ashkenaz 411
36. Neologisms in the Writings of Max Weinreich 435
37. The Response of Second- and Third-Generation American Jews to the Catastrophe 448
38. Problems in the Study of the Shmuel-bukh 467
39. Water-Carriers' Societies 476
40. Sholem Aleichem in the Stock Languages: Notes on Translations of "Dos tepl" into Ukrainian, German, Hebrew, English and Russian 499
41. Six Hundred Years of Yiddish Translations of Psalms 526
42. YIDDISH ARTICLES 527