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RE: yiddish language decline?
- From: SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>
- Subject: RE: yiddish language decline?
- Date: Wed 20 Mar 2002 10.50 (GMT)
At 01:16 AM 3/20/02, Yoel Epstein wrote:
>Has anyone researched this issue? If, in fact, the use of Hebrew is
>increasing, I believe this will have a profound impact on the future of
>Hassidic culture in Israel.
Several years ago I contributed a book review to a volume which deals
precisely with this topic. BTW, the review (titled "A Jewish Language In
The Making") points to the fact that in many "English-speaking" Orthodox
Jewish communities the "dying" language of Yiddish may have actually been
replaced by a new living language formed on English and Yiddish. This does
not refer to the Hassidic enclaves in various countries in which Yiddish is
by all counts far from dying.
<<PIOUS VOICES: Languages among Ultra-Orthodox Jews>>
Edited by Miriam Isaacs and Lewis Glinert
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Issue 138
MIRIAM ISAACS Haredi, haymish and frim: Yiddish vitality and language
choice in a transnational, multilingual community
LEWIS H. GLINERT
We never changed our language: attitudes to Yiddish acquisition among
Hasidic educators in Britain
JOAN E. ABRAHAM
Perceptions of English learning in a Hasidic Jewish sect
ZELDA KAHAN-NEWMAN
Women's badkhones: the Satmar poem sung to a bride
MIRIAM ISAACS
Contentious partners: Yiddish and Hebrew in Haredi Israel
BRYNA BOGOCH
Gender, literacy, and religiosity: dimensions of Yiddish education in
Israeli government-supported schools
Book reviews
AYALA FADER
New World Hasidim: Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America, edited
by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin
MARK R. V. SOUTHERN
The Prime of Yiddish, by David Passow
SAM WEISS
Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim M. Weiser
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