Journey to Oblivion: The End of the East European Yiddish and German Worlds in the Mirror of Literature

by Peter A Stenberg

Before the Second World War, some 25 million people in Eastern Europe spoke Yiddish or German. Their numbers had grown over 750 years. The two language groups spread and developed in relative isolation from each other, though they occupied much the same territory and experienced similar fates during the Russian Revolution.

In this book, Peter Stenberg uses literature to trace the destinies of these two separate but related language groups...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487584989
• ISBN13: 9781487584986
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher