Soviet Yiddish Language Planning and Linguistic Development |
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| Author:
| Estraikh, Gennady |
| Series title: | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-167436-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Online resource |
| List Price: | USD $180.00 |
Book Description:
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This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.
This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.