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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-mosh of Languages Saved the Jews by Neal Karlen

The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-mosh of Languages Saved the Jews

Neal Karlen

338 pages digital 2007

1 edition

nonfiction history challenging funny reflective slow-paced
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Karlen charts the beginning of Yiddish as a minor dialect in medieval Europe that helped peasant Jews live safely apart from the marauders of the First Crusades. Incorporating a large measure of antique German dialects, Yiddish also included littl...

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