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Hardcover Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America Book

ISBN: 0817302581

ISBN13: 9780817302580

Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America

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This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.

Yiddish arrived in America as the mother tongue of millions of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Not only did this language without a homeland survive in the great American melting pot, it infiltrated the majority language, English, with a wide variety of new words...

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