Yiddish: A Nation of Words,Used

Yiddish: A Nation of Words,Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG1586420275
Brand: Brand: Steerforth
Sale price$9.56 Regular price$13.66
Save $4.10
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

This firstever popular history of Yiddish is so full of life that it reads like a biography of the language.For a thousand years Yiddish was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly farflung relations. In it they produced one of the world's most richly human cultures.Impoverished and disenfranchised in the eyes of the world, Yiddishspeakers created their own alternate reality wealthy in appreciation of the varieties of human behavior, spendthrift in humor, brilliantly inventive in maintaining and strengthening community. For a people of exile, the language took the place of a nation. The written and spoken word formed the Yiddishland that never came to be. Words were army, university, citystate, territory. They were a people's home.The tale, which has never before been told, is nothing short of miraculous the saving of a people through speech. It ranges far beyond Europe, from North America to Israel to the RussianChinese border, and from the end of the first millenium to the present day. This book requires no previous knowledge of Yiddish or of Jewish history just a curious mind and an open heart.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed