Publications

Publication details [#26446]

Herzog, Marvin I. 2000. The language and culture atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Vol. 3, The Eastern Yiddish-Western Yiddish continuum. Max Niemeyer. X+378 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language change | language contact | language origins

Language as a subject

German | Languages, Slavic | Yiddisch

ISBN

0047-4045

Annotation

This volume is committed to the traditional theory of Yiddish genesis, i.e. the continuum hypothesis that considers Eastern Yiddish as 'colonial' offshoot of Western (Rhineland) Yiddish. It ignores the hypothesis of a single genesis along the Danube, and dismisses the "Yiddish-as-Slavic" hypothesis.

Reviewed by

Wexler, Paul. 2002. Review of $The language and culture atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Vol. 3, The Eastern Yiddish-Western Yiddish continuum.