In:Yiddish: Turning to Life
Joshua A. Fishman †
[Not in series 49] 1991
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 16 August 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.49.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.49.toc
Table of contents
Preface1
Part I. Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis
Introduction11
Post-exilic Jewish languages and pidgins/creoles: Two mutually clarifying perspectives19
Nothing new under the sun: A case study of alternatives in language and ethnocultural identity37
Shprakhikeyt in hayntikn yisroyel68
Part II. Yiddish in America
Introduction73
Birth of a voting bloc: Candidates pay court to Hasidic and Orthodox Jews75
Yiddish in America81
Nathan Birnbaum’s view of American Jewry171
Yidish, modernizatsye un reetnifikatsye: an ernster un faktndiker tsugang tsu der itstiker problematik172
Part III. Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow
Introduction181
The phenomenological and linguistic pilgrimage of Yiddish: Some examples of functional and structural pidginization and depidginization189
Why did Yiddish change?203
Modeling rationales in corpus planning: Modernity and tradition in images of the good corpus217
Part IV. Status Planning: The Tshernovits conference of 1908231
Introduction233
Nathan Birnbaum’s ‘second phase’: The champion of Yiddish and Jewish cultural autonomy239
Nosn birnboyms dray tshernovitser konferentsn248
Attracting a following to high culture functions for a language of everyday life: The role of the Tshernovits Conference in the rise of Yiddish255
Der hebreysher opruf af der tsernovitser konferents284
Part V. Stock-taking: Where are we now?
Introduction291
Starting with the future293
The sociology of Yiddish after the holocaust: Status, needs and possibilities301
How does Yiddish differ?313
The lively life of a ‘dead’ language325
Vos ken zayn di funktsye fun yidish in yisroyel?342
References
Appendix: Statistical Tables: Yiddish (20th Century)
Introduction377
List of Tables385
