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9780080341569
For five hundred years scholars have been intrigued by the origins of Yiddish, the thousand year old language of Central and East European Jewry, and recently there has been a dramatic revival of both popular and intellectual interest. The Oxford Winter Symposium on Yiddish Language and Literature was the first academic conference devoted exclusively to the topic, and the greatest living Yiddish scholars are represented in this volume.Katz, David is the author of 'Origins of the Yiddish Language', published 1987 under ISBN 9780080341569 and ISBN 008034156X.
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