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THEMES - History of Yiddish

(Under construction. Over time I will add more relevant links and a bibliography.)


Links:

Jewish Language Research Website

Jiddischkurs im Internet
This website contains a wealth of information on Yiddish and is the outcome of an academic project involving scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States. Of special interest are the sound clips taken from a series of interviews that were recorded in the 1960s.

First Conference for the Yiddish Language - Czernovitz 1908
Special part of the Shtetl. Yiddish Language and Culture website dedicated completely to the Czernovitz conference of 1908.


Online articles:

Yiddish: A Language Without An Army Regulates Itself
Article by Rakhmiel Peltz.

On the role of genetic, areal and ethnocultural factors in the formation and evolution of Yiddish.
Article by Vulf Plotkin. German version (PDF) can be found here.