Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development by Gennady Estraikh

Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development

Gennady Estraikh

232 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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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 sub...

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