Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America

by Sol Steinmetz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817302581
• ISBN13: 9780817302580
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.