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The rise of modern Yiddish culture

"The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture, and examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival in the diaspora."--Jacket

Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, ©2005