Dialects of the Yiddish Language
Winter Studies in Yiddish
- 1st Edition - December 12, 1988
- Latest edition
- Editor: D. Katz
- Language: English
Modern research on dialects of the Yiddish language focuses in many instances upon Western Yiddish and the application of Yiddish dialectology to the study of older Yiddish and… Read more
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Description
Description
Modern research on dialects of the Yiddish language focuses in many instances upon Western Yiddish and the application of Yiddish dialectology to the study of older Yiddish and non-Yiddish monuments. The Second Oxford Winter Symposium on Yiddish Language and Literature reflects this trend and this collection of papers from the conference explores a wide range of contemporary research in the field.
Readership
Readership
For students of Judaica, linguistics, German philology and Slavic studies.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface: On the Second Winter Symposium. Dutch impact on Amsterdam Yiddish prints, M Aptroot. Words for 'God' in seventeenth century women's poetry in Yiddish, D Asher. An overlooked feature in Yiddish phonology, S Hiley. Early Yiddish texts and Western Yiddish dialectology, C Hutton. The first American attempt to produce a Yiddish language atlas, J Jofen. Origins of Yiddish dialectology, D Katz. East meets West: The dialectal climate of two early Eastern European Yiddish prints, D-B Kerler. Two of Weinreich's four riddles revisited, A D King. Early Yiddish in non-Jewish books, M N Rosenfeld. Is there a mystical dialect in modern Yiddish drama?, D Schneider. Symposium programme. Registered participants. Announcements.
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 5, 2014
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
DK
D. Katz
Affiliations and expertise
Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies & St Antony's College, Oxford, UKView book on ScienceDirect
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