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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-mosh of Languages Saved the Jews Book
Scholars usually date Yiddish from the 11th century when modern linguists believed the language began as a German dialect spoken by newly arrived Jewish immigrants from France and Northern Italy living along the Rhine. Over time it became an actual language incorporating elements of Hebrew Aramaic and the Slavic and Romance languages.Read More
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Blackwell
Karlens delightfully engaging, sometimes irreverent history of the Yiddish language chronologically charts the language from its beginnings as a minor dialect in 11th-century France to its unlikely revival and electrifying 21st-century renaissance.
- 0060837128
- 9780060837129
- Neal Karlen
- 1 April 2009
- HarperCollins
- Paperback (Book)
- 336
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