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Publication details [#46748]

Betten, Anne and Sigrid Graßl, eds. 1995. Sprachbewahrung nach der Emigration I. Das Deutsch der Zwanziger Jahre in Israel. Teil I: Transkripte und Tondokumente. [Language Conservation after Emigration. Nineteen-Twenties' German in Modern-Day Israel. Part I: Transcripts and recorded documentation.] (Phonai / Texte und Untersuchungen zum gesprochenen Deutsch 42). De Gruyter. VIII+449 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

German

Keywords

context | language and culture | language maintenance | language variety | migration

Annotation

From the analyses in this first volume on German language maintenance among German-speaking Jews in Modern-Day Israel, who were able to escape from Nazi Germany in the 1930's, transpires a common characteristic: the conservation of the cultivated German language variety of the educated upper middle-classes of the 1920's.