Soviet Yiddish : language planning and linguistic development /

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Author / Creator:Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ)
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:viii, 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subject:Yiddish language -- Soviet Union -- History.
Yiddish language.
Soviet Union.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3733648
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ISBN:0198184794
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford) presented under the title: Origin and features of Soviet Yiddish.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-200) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Yiddish in late Imperial Russia
  • 2. Yiddish proletarian language
  • 3. Language-planning of the 1930s
  • 4. Soviet Yiddish in the 1940s80s
  • 5. Soviet Yiddish orthography
  • 6. Soviet Yiddish word-formation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Yiddish lexical items
  • Index of names and subjects