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          Subject Bibliography of Judeo-Slavic Studies

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Alter, Robert. The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism (Seattle, 1988)

Bin-Nun, Jechiel. Jiddisch und die deutschen Mundarten (Tübingen, 1973)

Birnbaum, Solomon A. Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar (Toronto, 1979)

Estraikh, Gennady. In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (Syracuse, N.Y., 2005)

Fishman, Joshua, ed. Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters (The Hague, 1981)

Fishman, Joshua. "Yiddish and Loshn-Koydesh in Traditional Ashkenaz". In: Language in Sociology, ed. Albert Verdoodt and Rolf Kjolseth (Louvain, 1976), pp. 39-47

Fishman, Joshua. “The Hebraist Response to the Tshernovits Conference”. In: Semitic Studies in honor of Wolf Leslau, vol. 1, ed. Alan Kaye (Wiesbaden, 1991), pp. 437-448

Frieden, Ken. Classic Yiddish Fiction (Albany, N.Y., 1995)

Gilboa, Yehoshua. A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union (Rutherford, N.J., 1982)

Glinert, Lewis, and Yosseph Shilhav. “Holy Land, Holy Language: A Study of an Ultraorthodox Jewish Ideology”. Language in Society 20.1 (1991), pp. 59-86

Glinert, Lewis, ed. Hebrew in Ashkenaz: A Language in Exile (New York, 1993)

Glinert, Lewis. “Did Pre-Revival Hebrew Literature Have Its Own ‘Langue?’ Quotation and Improvisation in Mendele Mokher Sefarim”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 51.3 (1988), pp. 413-427

Glinert, Lewis. “Hebrew-Yiddish Diglossia, Type and Stereotype: Implications of the Language of Ganzfried’s ‘Kitzur’”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 67 (1987), pp. 39-55

Glinert, Lewis. “The Hasidic Tale and the Sociolinguistic Modernization of the Jews of Eastern Europe”. In: Ma`aseh sipur, ed. Rella Kushelevsky and Avidov Lipsker (Ramat Gan, 2006), pp. 7-36 [in the English section]

Glinert, Lewis. “Toward a Sociology of Ashkenazi Hebrew”. Jewish Social Studies 2.3 (1996), pp. 85-114

Goldsmith, Emanuel S. Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement (New York, 1987)

Grosjean, François. Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism (Cambridge, Mass., 1982)

Harshav, Benjamin. Language in Time of Revolution (Stanford, 1999)

Harshav, Benjamin. The Meaning of Yiddish (Berkeley, 1990; reprinted Stanford, 1999)

Herzog, Marvin I., et al., eds. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Vol. 1: Historical and Theoretical Foundations (Tübingen, 1992). Vol. 2: Research Tools (Tübingen, 1995). Vol. 3: The Eastern Yiddish–Western Yiddish Continuum (Tübingen, 2000)

Holquist, Michael. “What is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism?” In: Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations, ed. Doris Sommer (New York, 2003), pp. 21-34

Jofen, Jean. A Linguistic Atlas of Eastern European Yiddish (New York, 1964)

Katz, Dovid, ed. Dialects of the Yiddish Language. As: Winter Studies in Yiddish 2 (1988)

Katz, Dovid, ed. Oksforder yidish. 3 vols. (Chur – Oxford, 1990-1995)

Katz, Dovid, ed. Origins of the Yiddish Language. As: Winter Studies in Yiddish 1 (1987)

Katz, Dovid. Lithuanian Jewish Culture, 2nd ed. (Vilnius, 2010), pp. 33-49

Katz, Dovid. Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish, 2nd ed. (New York, 2007)

Kerler, Dov-Ber, ed. History of Yiddish Studies. As: Winter Studies in Yiddish 3 (1991)

Kerler, Dov-Ber. The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish (Oxford, 1999)

Krutikov, Mikhail. Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford, 2001)

Niger, Samuel. Bilingualism in the History of Jewish Literature, trans. Joshua Fogel (Lanham, Md., 1990). Original Yiddish edition: Di tsveyshprakhikayt fun undzer literatur (Detroit, 1941)

Rabin, Chaim. “The Origins of Present-day Hebrew”. Ariel 59 (1985), pp. 4-13

Roskies, David. A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)

Roskies, David. Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Cambridge, Mass., 1984)

Samuel, Maurice. In Praise of Yiddish (New York, 1971)

Shaked, Gershon. Modern Hebrew Fiction, trans. Yael Lotan, ed. Emily Miller Budick (Bloomington, Ind., 2000)

Tabachnik, Abraham Baer. Dikhter un dikhtung (New York, 1965), pp. 339-349

Weinreich, Max. Bilder fun der yidisher literatur-geshikhte (Vilna, 1928)

Weinreich, Max. History of the Yiddish Language, 4 vols., trans. Shlomo Noble and Joshua A. Fishman, ed. Paul Glasser (Chicago, 1980 – New Haven, 2008). Original Yiddish edition: Geshikhte fun der yidisher shprakh, 4 vols. (New York, 1973)

Weinreich, Uriel, et al., eds. The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature. 5 vols. (New York – The Hague – Philadelphia – Evanston, Ill., 1954-1993)

Weinreich, Uriel. Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (New York: Linguistic Circle, 1953)

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