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Author(s): Dovid Katz
ISBN(s): 9780465037285, 0465037283
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 22.77 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0465037283

ISBN 13: 9780465037285

Author:  Dovid Katz 

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish 1st Edition: Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces the origins of Yiddish back to the Europe of a thousand years ago, and shows how those origins are themselves an uninterrupted continuation of the previous three millennia of Jewish history and culture in the Near East. Words on Fire narrates the history of the language from medieval times onward, through its development as written literature, particularly for and by Jewish women. In the wake of secularizing and modernizing movements of the nineteenth century, Yiddish rose spectacularly in a few short years from a mass folk idiom to the language of sophisticated modern literature, theater, and journalism. Although a secular Yiddish culture no longer exists, Katz argues that its resurgence among religious Jewish communities ensures that Yiddish will still be a thriving language in the twenty-first century. For anyone interested in Jewish history and tradition, Words on Fire will be a definitive account of this remarkable language and the culture that created and sustained it.

 

Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I

  • Chapter 1: Genesis
  • Chapter 2: The Three Languages of Ashkenaz
  • Chapter 3: Old Yiddish Literature

Part II

  • Chapter 4: What Should a Lady Read?
  • Chapter 5: Yiddish and Kabbalah
  • Chapter 6: In the East

Part III

  • Chapter 7: Westernization and Language
  • Chapter 8: New Visions of Judaism
  • Chapter 9: The Twentieth Century

Part IV

  • Chapter 10: In the Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter 11: The Future of Yiddish**
 

 

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