26.434, Books: Yiddish and Power: Katz

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:09:56
From: Stephanie Morgan [Stephanie.Morgan at palgrave.com]
Subject: Yiddish and Power: Katz

 


Title: Yiddish and Power 
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com
	

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/yiddish-and-power-dovid-katz/?isb=9780230517608 


Author: Dovid Katz

Hardback: ISBN:  9780230517608 Pages: 340 Price: U.K. £ 68.00


Abstract:

Yiddish and Power is a survey of a thousand years of social, linguistic and intellectual, social and political history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. The book explores the ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses first by providing access to romantic literature from outside, and then later, to the 'secrets' from inside the Jewish heritage (including KabbalahKabbalistic mysticism) that were previously accessible only for those rabbinically trained in the two classic Jewish languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Along the way, the study of Yiddish variously served the interests of Jewish rebels, anti-Semites (and in an unusual agreement, Jewish assimilationists) who sought to vilify the language as an embodiment of evil. The language went on to become a beloved and key value in radical new Jewish movements, in politics, culture and literature.Yiddish today continues to serve various interests ranging from the far left to the far right. This book covers close to a thousand years of uses, abuses, disputes, love and hate of one of Europe's genuinely exotic languages.

Maps and charts by Giedre Beconyte.

Dovid Katz is an international authority on Yiddish and Ashkenazic Jewish culture. He founded Yiddish studies at Oxford University, where he taught for 18 years, and then in Vilnius, where he was professor of Yiddish in Vilnius for 11 years. He has published many academic works in Yiddish studies in addition to three collections of original Yiddish fiction. He is also a leader of the movement against Holocaust revisionism in Eastern Europe. His websites are www.dovidkatz.net and www.DefendingHistory.com. 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Aramaic, Official (arc)
                     Hebrew (heb)
                     Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)


Written In: English  (eng)

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