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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0020-7152
- eISSN
- 1745-2554
- DOI
- 10.1163/156854272X00217
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
BOOK REVIEWS J. R. Rayfield, The Languages of a Bilingual Community. The Hague, Mouton, 1970, 118 pp., price not given In her report on a study of a Jewish bilingual community, Rayfield makes a unique contribution to the technics of linguistics, but its social implications should not be overlooked. It is a beach community suburban to Los Angeles of which most of the inhabitants are Jews who migrated mainly from Russia or Poland a half-century ago. They made good economically, reared their families, and then retired, enjoying the serenity of a cultural snug harbor. The community of under three thousand is the end product of their migration, but is itself passing into history, that kind of immigration having ceased. By American standards, these elderly, self-supporting people have succeeded in the world of English. Now they return to Yiddish, a mixture of Hebrew, German, and Slavic, and the culture it reflects, which has been treasured in the background for decades. They find a psychological security in their mother tongue which English could not provide. Rayfield found, which is not surprising, that over the years some of their Yiddish penetrated their English, while their Yiddish had absorbed various elements of
Journal
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1972