{"product_id":"yiddish-isbn-9780345447302","title":"Yiddish","description":"About a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them. It included Hebrew, a touch of the Romance and Slavic languages, and a large helping of German. In a world of earthly wandering, this pungent, witty, and infinitely nuanced speech, full of jokes, puns, and ironies, became the linguistic home of the Jews, the bond that held a people together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the remarkable story of how this humble language took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe; how it achieved a rich literary flowering between the wars in Europe and America; how it was rejected by emancipated Jews; and how it fell victim to the Holocaust. And how, in yet another twist of destiny, Yiddish today is becoming the darling of academia. \u003ci\u003eYiddish\u003c\/i\u003e is a history as story, a tale of flesh-and-blood people with manic humor, visionary courage, brilliant causes, and glorious flaws. It will delight everyone who cares about language, literature, and culture.“[A] charming and highly readable history of the language . . . Weinstein succeeds in her efforts to recreate the sound of a world that is gone forever.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eYIDDISH: A NATION OF WORDS\u003c\/i\u003e] READS LIKE A FOLKTALE PEPPERED WITH PASSIONATE CHARACTERS.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Almost everyone knows a little [Yiddish], a word or two, a joke perhaps, but what do they really know of the history, the tragedies, and bitter controversies that characterized a language now on the U.N.’s endangered list, but once spoken by eleven million people. . . . Part of the problem has been the lack of a serious, yet accessible book to fill the gap between glib entertainments. . . . Weinstein’s [book]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eaims to do that and her success . . . is substantial.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302240211173,"sku":"NP9780345447302","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345447302.jpg?v=1767744683","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/yiddish-isbn-9780345447302","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}