Download or read book Politics of Yiddish written by Dov-Ber Kerler and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen contributors wax knowledgeably about the language's ideology ("politiks-smolitiks" say some), scholarship, declining linguistic communities, literature, press, riddles, names, and ambivalence evoked by the Jewish mama loshen and immigrant language of Yiddish. Includes photos of the early Yiddish theater. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR