The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish

This title examines hitherto neglected Yiddish books from the late 18th century in order to analyse the linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and shift from Old to nascent Modern Literary Yiddish within the broader context of genre and literary tradition and in the framework of Yiddish dialectology, grammar, and sociolinguistics.

theoretically sophisticated, elegantly written, and meticulously researched and documented study ... Kerler's citation practice serves all potential readers... The extensive bibliography ... demonstrates the astonishing breadth of Kerler's research for this project.

Klappentext
This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of Modern Literary Yiddish, beginning in the eighteenth century. Kerler examines hitherto neglected Yiddish books from the period in order to analyze the linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and shift from old to nascent Modern Literary Yiddish within the broader context of genre and literary traditions and in the framework of Yiddish dialectology, grammar, and sociolinguistics. A major work of linguistic scholarship, The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish is an important contribution to the study of the crystallization process of literary languages.


Inhalt
Part 1 Eastern Yiddish in the old literary language: the two early-18th-century East European texts. Part 2 Transition - easternization of old literary Yiddish: the late-18th-century Eastern re-editions of "Kav Hayosher"; the Eastern revision of "Tsene Rene"; the Eastern reprint of "Simkhes Hanefesh"; easternization - a comparative overview. Part 3 Shift - the emergence of nascent modern literary Yiddish: the earliest Eastern-Yiddish work - "Ben Hameylekh Vehanosir" (1771); the first original work in modern-Eastern Yiddish "Mayse Gdoyle Min Uman Umin Ukrayne (c.1783). Part 4 Shift - a comparative analysis: synthesis.

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