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The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present. <p>Jeffrey Shandler tells the multifaceted history
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- Author
- Jeffrey Shandler
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190651985
- Category
- language learning
- Subjects
- Religion, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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