The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish

By: Dov-Ber Kerler

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Hardcover | 1 April 1994

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This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of modern literary Yiddish, an issue of great significance in the linguistic, literary, and social history of the Yiddish language. The eighteenth century marked the turning point in the history of literary Yiddish, a period of rapid linguistic assimilation to German and Dutch in the West and, by sharp contrast, the increasing cultural autonomy of Eastern European Jewry. Books printed in the West reflected the impact of New High German and contemporary Western Yiddish. Books published in Eastern Europe, the new centre for Yiddish printing, used Eastern Yiddish both for new works and for new editions of old Yiddish works. Dr Kerler examines hitherto neglected Yiddish books from the period in order to analyse the linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and shift from old to nascent Modern Literary Yiddish within the broader context of genre and literary traditions and in the framework of Yiddish dialectology, grammar, and sociolinguistics. Many of the grammatical norms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary Yiddish are shown to have their origins in the eighteenth century. A major work of linguistic scholarship, The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish is an important contribution to the study of the crystallization process of literary languages, highlighting in the case of Yiddish the dynamics of emergence in the absence of the usual governmental support.

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`Kerler's study ... is characterized by an elegant precision in style that is rare in studies of this kind ... In one stroke ... Kerler clears away the accumulated detritus of a century of baseless speculation and merely conventional wisdom ... Kerler's exemplary work ... will be the basis of all future study of the most important transition in the history of the Yiddish literary language.' Jerold C.Frakes, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2001 `theoretically sophisticated, elegantly written, and meticulously researched and documented study ... Kerler's citation practice serves all potential readers... The extensive bibliography ... demonstrates the astonishing breadth of Kerler's research for this project.' Jerold C.Frakes, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2001

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List of Tables	p. xii
List of Appendices	p. xiv
Abbreviations and Listing of Primary Sources	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Objectives	p. 1
The Structure and History of Yiddish	p. 4
The Fusion Nature of Yiddish	p. 5
Historical and Socio-linguistic Factors	p. 10
Basic Premisses	p. 15
Yiddish as a Literary Language	p. 17
The Old Literary Language	p. 17
Literary and Spoken Yiddish	p. 18
The Historical Factors	p. 19
The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish: Concepts, Sources, and Strategies	p. 21
The Point of Departure	p. 23
Causation	p. 23
Literary Correlates	p. 24
Linguistic Aspects	p. 24
General Plan of the Book	p. 27
Eastern Yiddish in the Old Literary Language	p. 29
Preface	p. 29
Pre-eighteenth-century Yiddish books from Eastern Europe	p. 29
Traces of Eastern Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature	p. 30
Eastern Yiddish Features in the Seventeenth Century	p. 32
The Seventeenth-century Commemorative Poems	p. 34
Two Early Eighteenth-Century East European Texts	p. 36
Two Books from the Early Eighteenth Century	p. 36
Derekh tomim (Zholkve, 1723)	p. 36
Derekh khayim (Zholkve, c. 1723)	p. 37
Textual Sources	p. 38
The Language of Derekh tomim and Derekh khayim	p. 40
Phonology	p. 40
Lexicon	p. 43
Morphology	p. 46
Semantic Change	p. 49
Syntax	p. 50
Summary	p. 52
Transition: Easternization of Old Literary Yiddish	p. 55
Preface	p. 55
The Late Eighteenth-Century Eastern Re-Editions of Kav Hayosher	p. 57
The Original Work and its Language	p. 57
The Early Western Editions	p. 59
Orthography	p. 59
Phonology	p. 59
Morphology	p. 60
Lexicon	p. 61
Syntax	p. 61
The Eastern Yiddish Re-editions	p. 61
Orthography	p. 62
Phonology	p. 67
Morphology	p. 70
Lexicon	p. 83
Morpho-syntax	p. 85
Syntax	p. 93
The Eastern Revision of Tsene rene	p. 100
Introduction	p. 100
Linguistic Easternization of Tsene rene (Hanau, 1622; Amsterdam, 1726; Lemberg, 1786)	p. 102
Orthography	p. 102
Phonology	p. 103
Morphology	p. 104
Lexicon	p. 107
Morpho-syntax	p. 108
Syntax	p. 111
The Eastern Reprint of Simkhes hanefesh	p. 116
Introduction	p. 116
The Language of Simkhes hanefesh	p. 117
Linguistic Easternization of Simkhes hanefesh (Shklov, 1796)	p. 117
Orthography	p. 118
Phonology	p. 120
Morphology	p. 122
Lexicon and Phraseology	p. 125
Morpho-syntax	p. 126
Syntax	p. 127
Easternization: A Comparative Overview	p. 128
Introduction	p. 128
Orthography and Phonology	p. 128
Lexicon	p. 130
Morphology	p. 131
Morpho-syntax	p. 132
Syntax	p. 133
Archaic Features	p. 135
Schematic Comparison	p. 136
The Extent of Easternization and the Levels of Linguistic Change	p. 137
Shift: The Emergence of Nascent Modern Literary Yiddish	p. 141
Preface	p. 141
The Earliest Eastern Yiddish Work: Ben hameylekh vehanozir (1771)	p. 146
The Two Eighteenth-Century Translations	p. 146
Reuven Halevi's Translation (Frankfurt am Main, 1769)	p. 147
Morphology	p. 147
Lexicon	p. 148
Syntax	p. 149
Ben hameylekh vehanozir (Zholkve, 1771)	p. 150
Orthography	p. 150
Phonology	p. 152
Morphology and Morpho-syntax	p. 153
Summary	p. 177
The First Original Work in Modern Eastern Yiddish: Mayse gdoyle min Uman umin Ukrayne (c.1783)	p. 180
Introduction	p. 180
The Two Versions	p. 182
The Western Version	p. 182
The Eastern Version	p. 182
The Two Versions	p. 188
The Language of the Western Version (Furth, 1783)	p. 191
Orthography	p. 192
Phonology	p. 193
Morphology	p. 195
Lexicon and Phraseology	p. 198
Syntax	p. 201
The Language of the Eastern Version [Novidvor, c.1783]	p. 202
Orthography	p. 202
Phonology	p. 205
Lexicon	p. 210
Morphology	p. 213
Shift: A Comparative Analysis	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Eastern Yiddish Dialect Correlates	p. 218
The Southeastern Texts	p. 219
The Northeastern Texts	p. 222
Grammar	p. 225
The Emergence of Common Eastern Yiddish (Proto-Standard Yiddish)	p. 228
Plural Formation	p. 228
Diminutive Formation	p. 229
Abstract Noun Formation	p. 231
Pronominal Adjectives	p. 232
Possessive Pronouns	p. 232
The Case System	p. 234
Functional Words	p. 238
The Preterite	p. 239
The Future-Tense Auxiliary	p. 241
The Verbal Aspect	p. 242
Old versus Modern Forms and Categories	p. 248
Synthesis	p. 253
The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish	p. 253
Periodization of Literary Yiddish	p. 255
From Early New Yiddish to the Early Modern Literary Language	p. 256
The Rise of Modern Literary Yiddish: Historical, Linguistic, and Socio-linguistic Perspectives	p. 258
Appendices	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 321
General Index	p. 341
Word Index	p. 346
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