id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zjehnsgwnjg7bmxpolu7th7psq Daniel J. Gilman Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (review) 2008.0 3 .pdf application/pdf 1429 69 52 Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (review) Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (review) the history (and prehistory) of the Yiddish language. Yiddish's place in the world of Jewish Europe. mastered the Hebrew of the Bible and the Aramaic of the Talmud (the "real men" of traditional Jewish culture) and uneducated men who generally could read only Yiddish fomented an additional derogatory association As Katz demonstrates, the dismissal and derogation of Yiddish as an effeminate language persists up to the present day in Yiddish presents a fascinating case study of the intersections of language Although Katz painstakingly charts the history of speakers of Yiddish and provides an excellent framework for understanding how the language emerged and grew, he is rather makes the claim that Yiddish as a living language published by Herald Press, Ervin Beck's MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions ./cache/work_zjehnsgwnjg7bmxpolu7th7psq.pdf ./txt/work_zjehnsgwnjg7bmxpolu7th7psq.txt