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Dialects of the Yiddish Language
Winter Studies in Yiddish
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2014
- Editor: D. Katz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 9 3 3 - 0 7 7 2 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 9 5 0 - 1
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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Request a sales quoteModern 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.
For students of Judaica, linguistics, German philology and Slavic studies.
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.
- No. of pages: 127
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 28, 2014
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781493307722
- eBook ISBN: 9781483299501
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Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies & St Antony's College, Oxford, UKRead Dialects of the Yiddish Language on ScienceDirect