ISBN:
9780230517608
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (341 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Yiddish and Power
DDC:
439.109
Keywords:
Discourse analysis
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.
Abstract:
〈p 〉〈span style=""font-style:italic;"" 〉Yiddish and Power〈/span〉 surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Maps, Charts, Boxes and Images; Acknowledgements; Preface; Maps; 1 A Yiddish Romance with Powerlessness; I: Old Yiddish in Western Ashkenaz; 2 Gentile Culture Empowers Simple Jews; 3 Power of the Printing Press; 4 Women of Western Ashkenaz; 5 The Neo-Religious and the Jewish-Secular; 6 Power Shifts: West→East, Earlier→Later,Secular→Religious; 7 Women (and Men) of Eastern Ashkenaz; 8 Religious Theories of Yiddish; II: Transition in the West; 9 Anti-Semitism Targets Yiddish; 10 German-Jewish Enlightenment also Targets Yiddish; III: Rise in the East; 11 Religious Power
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Secular Power13 Party Politics; IV: Modernity; 14 Interwar Encounters with Official Status; 15 Yiddishless Yiddish Power vs Powerless Yiddish; Bibliography; Index; Index of Yiddish Words
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