TY - BOOK AU - Aleykhem,Sholem AU - Berliner,Note AU - Birnboym,Shloyme AU - Clurman,Harold AU - Dinaburg,B. AU - Erlich,Rachel AU - Fishman,Joshua A. AU - Gersht,Y.L. AU - Glatshteyn,Yankev AU - Goldberg,B.Z. AU - Goldsmith,Emanuel S. AU - Golomb,Avrom AU - Graubart,Judah L. AU - Grinberg,Kh AU - Heilman,S.C. AU - Hudson-Edwards,Alan AU - Jochnowitz,George AU - Kazhdan,KhSh AU - Klarberg,F.Manfred AU - Kresl,G. AU - Landis,Joseph C. AU - Leshtshinski,Yankev AU - Lexer,Leybesh AU - Lifshits,Y.M. AU - Mark,Yudl AU - Meyer,Golde AU - Niger,Shmuel AU - Olgin,M. AU - Parker,Sandra AU - Pinski,D. AU - Poll,Solomon AU - Prager,Leonard AU - Rivkind,Yitskhok AU - Sadan,D. AU - Shekhter,Mordkhe AU - Shenirer,Sore AU - Shneyerson,M. AU - Shvabe,M. AU - Sigl,L. AU - Slobin,Dan I. AU - Susholtz,Shimon AU - Szajkowski,Zosa AU - Tenenboym,Yoysef AU - Tsinberg,Yisroel AU - Vaynraykh,Maks AU - Zelikovitsh,G. TI - Never Say Die!: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters T2 - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , SN - 9789027979780 AV - PJ5111 .N4 1981 U1 - 437/.947 19 PY - 2010///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Jews KW - Languages KW - Yiddish language KW - Social aspects KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - I-XVI --; The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword --; PART I: SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON YIDDISH --; PART II: ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW --; PART III: MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES --; PART IV: HISTORIC MOMENTS --; PART V: FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE --; PART VI: MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT --; REFERENCES --; PART I SOCIOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE --; The Reality of Jewishness versus the Ghetto Myth: The Sociolinguistic Roots of Yiddish --; The Yiddish Language: Its Cultural Impact --; Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur [Concerning the Ethnohistorical Role of Yiddish and Yiddish Culture] --; Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn [People and Language: Jewish Nationality and Yiddish Language] --; PART II ORTHODOXY: THEN AND NOW --; A Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature --; Yidishkeyt un yidish [Jewishness and Yiddish] --; 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] --; Geule fun loshn [Redemption of Language] --; The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic Communities --; Who Needs Yiddish? --; Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies --; PART III MODERNIZATION MOVEMENTS AND MODERN ATTITUDES --; Di fir klasn [The Four Categories] --; Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish [Matesyohu Mizes (Mattathias Mieses) and the Polemic about Yiddish] --; Zhitlovsky and American Jewry --; Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! [We Accuse and Demand Responsibility!] --; 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’] --; An ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents [An Open Letter to Our Yiddishist Intelligentsia] --; Who Needs Yiddish? A Study in Language and Ethics --; PART IV HISTORIC MOMENTS --; 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’ --; 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] --; Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet [On the Inauguration of the Yiddish Chair at the University in Jerusalem] --; Address at the Dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 --; 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] --; PART V FORMAL INSTITUTIONS OF LANGUAGE: THE PRESS, LITERATURE, THEATER, SCHOOLS --; Der ‘bund’ un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul [The ‘Bund’ and the Idea of a Yiddish-Secular School] --; Tsvey shprakhn–eyneyntsike literatur [Two Languages – One Literature] --; Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto [Yiddish Courses for Teachers in the (Nazi) Ghetto of Lodz] --; The Night of the Murdered Poets --; An Educational Assessment of the Yiddish Secular School Movements in the United States --; The American Yiddish Press at Its Centennial --; Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish Theater --; Yiddish in the University --; PART VI MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT --; Di yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn [The Yiddish Language in Our Private Life] --; The Struggle for Yiddish During World War I: The Attitude of German Jewry --; Di shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln [The Languages of Jews in Independent Poland] --; Lebediker untergang [Lively Death]/A loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl [A Language for Always, Not Just for a While] --; Yiddish in Melbourne --; Knowledge, Use, and Evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish College Students --; PART VII SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PLANNING --; Vegn zhargon oysleygn [About Spelling Zhargon ( = Yiddish)] --; Undzer mame-loshn [Our Mother Tongue] --; Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln [Concerning the Litvak (= Northeastern) Dialect in Congress Poland] Zeyer gerekht [Absolutely Right] B. (= Shloyme Birnboym) --; he ‘Hidden Standard’: A Study of Competing Influences in Standardization --; Politics and Linguistics in the Standardization of Soviet Yiddish --; Some Aspects of the Use of Pronouns of Address in Yiddish --; Bilingualism and Dialect Mixture Among Lubavitcher Hasidic Children --; Epilogue: Contributions of the Sociology of Yiddish to the General Sociology of Language --; Original Sources --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110820805 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110820805 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110820805/original ER -