This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.

20 used & new from $8.99

Have one to sell?

Share your own customer images

Search inside another edition of this book

Please tell the publisher: I'd like to read this book on Kindle

The Meaning of Yiddish (Hardcover)

by Benjamin Harshav (Author) "By the beginning of the twentieth century, both Yiddish literature and the Yiddish language-then spoken by the majority of Jews around the world-were well-established vehicles..." (more)
Key Phrases: vertical dialogue, stock languages, fusion language, New York, Sholem Aleichem, United States (more...)

(1 customer review)

Available from these sellers.

› 20 used & new available from $8.99

Also Available in:	List Price:	Our Price:	Other Offers:
Paperback (1)	$22.95	$22.95	16 used & new from $11.98

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav

$45.00

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) by Michael Wex

(42) $11.16

Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) by Jeffrey Shandler

$45.00

› Explore similar items : Books (3)

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
is Professor of Comparative Literature and Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and Slavic Language and Literature at Yale University.

Product Details

Hardcover: 235 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (May 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520059476
ISBN-13: 978-0520059474
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

Average Customer Review:

(1 customer review)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,886,824 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#37 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Yiddish
#49 in Books > Reference >