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Publication details [#35123]

Harshav, Benjamin. 1990. The meaning of Yiddish. University of California Press. xix + 205 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
language and culture | language and society | meaning
Language as a subject
Yiddish

Annotation

This book attempts to describe the ways in which Yiddish is embedded -for already a thousand years- in Jewish culture and Ashkenazic society.

Reviewed by

Peltz, Rakhmiel. 1992. Review of $The meaning of Yiddish.