ISBN:
9780815631903
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
XIII, 222 S.
,
Ill., Bibliogr. S. 197 - 216
,
8ʻ
Year of publication:
2008
DDC:
439/.1
Keywords:
Borochov, Ber
;
Shtif, Nokhem
;
Niger, Shmuel
Abstract:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yiddish was widely viewed, even by many of its speakers, as a corrupt form of German that Jews had to abandon if they hoped to engage in serious intellectual, cultural, or political work. Yet by 1917 it was the dominant language of the Russian Jewish press, a medium for modern literary criticism, a vehicle for science and learning, and the foundation of an ideology of Jewish liberation. The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 investigates how this change in status occurred and three major figures responsible for its transformation.
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