Publications

Publication details [#29325]

Fishman, Joshua. 1991. Yiddish: Turning to life. John Benjamins. 522 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language policy | language status | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Yiddish

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study of Yiddish comprises five sections that respectively deal with: the relationship between Yiddish and Hebrew; Yiddish in America; corpus planning and change; status planning; the Tshernovits conference of 1908; and the 'lively' state of the language at present.

Reviewed by

Klarberg, Manfred. 1993. Review of $Yiddish: Turning to life.