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1Author:  Goldberg, IsaacAdd
 Title:  New York's Yiddish Writers  
 Published:  1998 
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 Description: STRANGELY enough, it has long been a question to many, not alone whether the modern Jews have any literature, but whether Yiddish itself is a language. Many have been the prophecies which predicted the immediate extinction of the tongue, and yet, like the fabled Phoenix of old, it has risen new-born from its own ashes. Let prophets deal in futures — and it must be admitted that from certain signs familiar to students of linguistic evolution Yiddish would seem to be eventually doomed — the fact remains that to-day it is enjoying what amounts practically to a renaissance. And the question whether modern Jews have a literature is settled by a reading of the works themselves.
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