Never Say Die!
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Never Say Die!

A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters

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  2. English
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Never Say Die!

A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword
  3. PART I SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  4. The Reality of Jewishness versus the Ghetto Myth: The Sociolinguistic Roots of Yiddish
  5. The Yiddish Language: Its Cultural Impact
  6. Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur [Concerning the Ethnohistorical Role of Yiddish and Yiddish Culture]
  7. Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language]
  8. PART II ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW
  9. A Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature
  10. Yidishkeyt un yidish [Jewishness and Yiddish]
  11. Di rekht fun ‘loshn ashkenaz’ bay dintoyres [The Rights of Yiddish in Suits in Rabbinic Courts] / Der vilner goen un yidish [The Sage of Vilna and Yiddish]
  12. Geule fun loshn [Redemption of Language]
  13. The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic Communities
  14. Who Needs Yiddish?
  15. Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies
  16. PART III MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES
  17. Di fir klasn [The Four Categories]
  18. Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish [Matesyohu Mizes (Mattathias Mieses) and the Polemic about Yiddish]
  19. Zhitlovsky and American Jewry
  20. Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! [We Accuse and Demand Responsibility!]
  21. Der blik az yidish iz der tamtsis fun yidishkayt – di sakone fun der formule ‘lingvistish-sekularistish’ [The View that Yiddish is the Quintessence of Jewishness – The Danger of the Formulation ‘Linguistic-Secularistic’]
  22. An ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents [An Open Letter to Our Yiddishist Intelligentsia]
  23. Who Needs Yiddish? A Study in Language and Ethics
  24. PART IV HISTORIC MOMENTS
  25. Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the ‘Rise of Yiddish’
  26. Di yidishe shprakh af der tog-ordenung fun der sholem-konferents in pariz, 1919 [The Yiddish Language on the Agenda of the Peace Conference in Paris, 1919]
  27. Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet [On the Inauguration of the Yiddish Chair at the University in Jerusalem]
  28. Address at the Dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970
  29. Deklaratsye fun der velt-konferents far yidish un yidisher kultur in yerushelayem...dem 23stn–26stn oygust 1976 [Declaration of the World Conference for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture in Jerusalem... August 23–26, 1976]
  30. PART V FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE: THE PRESS, LITERATURE, THEATER, SCHOOLS
  31. Der ‘bund’ un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul [The ‘Bund’ and the Idea of a Yiddish-Secular School]
  32. Tsvey shprakhn–eyneyntsike literatur [Two Languages – One Literature]
  33. Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto [Yiddish Courses for Teachers in the (Nazi) Ghetto of Lodz]
  34. The Night of the Murdered Poets
  35. An Educational Assessment of the Yiddish Secular School Movements in the United States
  36. The American Yiddish Press at Its Centennial
  37. Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish Theater
  38. Yiddish in the University
  39. PART VI MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT
  40. Di yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn [The Yiddish Language in Our Private Life]
  41. The Struggle for Yiddish During World War I: The Attitude of German Jewry
  42. Di shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln [The Languages of Jews in Independent Poland]
  43. Lebediker untergang [Lively Death]/A loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl [A Language for Always, Not Just for a While]
  44. Yiddish in Melbourne
  45. Knowledge, Use, and Evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish College Students
  46. PART VII SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PLANNING
  47. Vegn zhargon oysleygn [About Spelling Zhargon ( = Yiddish)]
  48. Undzer mame-loshn [Our Mother Tongue]
  49. Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln [Concerning the Litvak (= Northeastern) Dialect in Congress Poland] Note Berliner Zeyer gerekht [Absolutely Right]
  50. The ‘Hidden Standard’: A Study of Competing Influences in Standardization
  51. Politics and Linguistics in the Standardization of Soviet Yiddish
  52. Some Aspects of the Use of Pronouns of Address in Yiddish
  53. Bilingualism and Dialect Mixture Among Lubavitcher Hasidic Children
  54. Epilogue: Contributions of the Sociology of Yiddish to the General Sociology of Language
  55. Original Sources
  56. Index