Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French

by Natalie Zemon Davis

This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lazăr Șăineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was a pioneer in his native Romania, seeking out the popular elements in culture along with high literary ones. He was among the first to publish a study of Yiddish as a genuine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 963386593X
• ISBN13: 9789633865934
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher