The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish - Dov-Ber (Sir Leslie and Lady Porter Fellow in Yiddish Studies Kerler - Bog

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.