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Publication details [#18194]
Estraikh, Gennady. 1999. Soviet Yiddish: Language planning and linguistic development. (Oxford modern languages and literature monographs). Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. x + 217 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This comprehensive work on Yiddish in the former Soviet Union describes orthographic and other reforms, from the language's status in pre-revolutionary Russia, via language planning initiatives in the 1920s and 1930s, followed by repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.