| | 1 | Author: | Goldberg, Isaac | Add | | | Title: | New York's Yiddish Writers  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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