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Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission

Rebecca Margolis

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The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Mqup
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2023
  • Pages: 376
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.98in - 1.10in - 1.19lb
  • EAN: 9780228014447
  • Categories: • Jewish Studies• Jewish - General• Linguistics - General

About the Author

Rebecca Margolis is director and Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia.

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"An original, engaging, and lively take on the history of Yiddish. Rebecca Margolis knows her 'linguistic landscape' inside out, and has much to contribute to the general debate on language revitalization. Her passion and energy for the subject comes through on every page." Aidan Doyle, author of A History of the Irish Language: From the Norman Invasion to Independence
"Yiddish Lives On successfully covers a wide range of topics regarding Yiddish, embracing the diversity of Yiddish speakers today. The book focuses on Canada, but points to the fact that no one country's Yiddish language activism and transmission story can be separated from the broader, trans-national world Yiddishists have built for decades both in person and online. One of the great benefits of Margolis's book, moreover, is that it offers an opportunity to understand or review Canadian Jewish history and culture through a very specific lens and gives a good introduction to the topic of Canadian Jewry for those who know little about the subject." Canadian Jewish Studies
"Each generation under discussion corresponds to a particular form of Yiddish transmission, and Margolis' multidisciplinary approach emerges with a rich, multifaceted, and hopeful vision for Yiddish continuity in the hands of those to come. Ultimately, this book shows that the language that, as the saying goes, redt zikh, truly only does so not when looking backward, to the past, but when looking ahead to the future." In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies

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