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Diachronica
Vol. 23:2 (2006) ► pp. 417–425
Book review

Neil G. Jacobs. Yiddish: A linguistic introduction
Neil G. Jacobs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix, 327 pp.

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| University of St. Petersburg, Russia
Published online: 15 December 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23.2.10kle
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