Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Book Details
Author(s)
Gennady Estraikh
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN / ASIN
0198184794
ISBN-13
9780198184799
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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.
