Yidish be-siman ḳeriʼah
An edition of Yidish be-siman ḳeriʼah (2020)
mi-leshon dibur li-śefat tarbut = Yiddish-- the linguistic leap : from a common dialect to a cultural and literary langauge
By Nathan Cohen
Publish Date
2020
Publisher
Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-ḥeḳer toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
Language
heb
Pages
472
Description:
From spoken language to cultural language traces changes that have taken place in the Jews of Eastern Europe through the vibrant book market, which has provided diverse content in Yiddish to various target audiences; And through the development of the public library, the press, the publishers, the translations in front of original books, and the changing status of Yiddish, the "language of the masses," compared to Russian from here and Hebrew from here. A comprehensive and in-depth study in the field of cultural history, which describes, through the multifaceted branching of secular reading in Yiddish, a society that is in the process of transitioning from tradition to modernity