Never say die! : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters /
edited by Joshua A. Fishman.
- 1 online resource (780 pages) : illustrations.
- Contributions to the sociology of language ; 30 .
Added title page: Lo amut, ki ehyeh. English and Yiddish.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Sociology of Yiddish: a foreword / Reality of Jewishness versus the ghetto myth / Yiddish language: its cultural impact / Vegn der natsyonaler role fun yidish un der yidisher kultur / Ume veloshn: yidish folk, yidish loshn / Defense of Yiddish in Old Yiddish literature / Yidishkeyt un yidish / Rekht fun 'loshn ashkenaz' bay dintoyres: der vilner goen un yidish / Geule fun loshn / Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hassadic! Communities / Who needs Yiddish? / Sounds of modern orthodoxy: the language of talmud studies / Fir klasn / Matesyohu mizes un di polemik vegn yidish / Zhitlovsky and American Jewry / Mir bashuldikn un monen akhrayes! / Blik az yidish iz der tamtsis fun yidishkayt--di sakone fun der formule 'lingvistish-sekularistish' / Ofener briv tsu undzer yidishistisher inteligents / Who needs Yiddish? A study in language and ethics / Attracting a following to high-culture functions for a language of everyday life: the role of the Tshernovits language conference in the 'rise of Yiddish' / Yidishe shprakh af der tog-ordenung fun der sholem-konferents in pariz, 1919 / Tsu der efenung fun der yidish-katedre in yerushelayemer universitet / Address at the dedication of the Leivick House in Israel, May 14, 1970 / Deklaratsye fun der velt-konferents far yidish un yidisher kultur ... oygust 1976 -- 'Bund' un der gedank vegn a yidish-veltlekher shul / Tsvey shprakhn-eyneyntsike literatur / Lererkursn far yidish in lodzher geto / Night of the murdered poets / Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States / Ida Kaminska and the Yiddish theater / Yiddish in the university / Yidishe shprakh in undzer privat-lebn / Struggle for Yiddish during World War I: the attitude of German Jewry / Shprakhn bay yidn in umophengikn poyln / Lebediker untergang/ a loshn af tomid, nisht af dervayl / Yiddish in Melbourne / Knowledge, use, and evaluation of Yiddish and Hebrew among American Jewish college students / Vegn zhargon oysleygn / Undzer mame-loshn / Vegn litvishn dialekt in kongres-poyln / Zeyer gerekht / Hidden standard: a study of competing influences in standardization / Politics and linguistics in the standardization of Soviet Yiddish / Some aspects of the use of pronouns of address in Yiddish / Bilingualism and dialect mixture among Lubavitcher hasidic children / Epilogue: contributions of the sociology of Yiddish to the general sociology of language / Joshua A. Fishman -- Max Weinreich -- Yudel Mark -- Shmuel Niger -- Avrom Golomb -- Israel Zinberg -- Sore Shenirer -- Yitskhok Rivkind -- Solomon Birnbaum -- Solomon Poll -- Shimon Susholtz -- S.C. Heilman -- Y.M. Lifshits -- G. Kresl -- Emanuel S. Goldsmith -- Zerubovl -- Leibush Lehrer -- Ben-adir -- Joseph C. Landis -- Joshua A. Fishman -- Yoysef Tenenboym -- M. Shneyerson ... [et al.] -- Golda Meir -- Kh. Sh. Kazhdan -- Bal-makhshoves -- Y.L. Gersht -- Judah L. Graubart -- B.Z. Goldberg -- Harold Clurman -- Leonard Prager -- M. Olgin -- Zosa Szajkowski -- Yankev Leshtshinski -- Yankev Glatshteyn -- F. Manfred Klarberg -- Alan Hudson-Edwards -- Sholem Aleichem -- G. Zelikovitsh -- Note Berliner -- B. [Solomon Birnbaum] -- Mordkhe Schaechter -- Rachel Erlich -- Dan I. Slobin -- George Jochnowitz -- Joshua A. Fishman.