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V I. Y IDDISH STU DIES Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michig , a an nd Gennady Estraikh, New York University 1. Language and Linguistics History a nd classification of Yiddish. The origin of the Yiddish language, and correspondingly of the Ashkenazic Jewry, continues to be a contentious issue among scholars. Weinreich’s model of the historical development of the language has been questioned by a number of linguists and specialists in other fields. Max WeH in is rto eic rh y , of the Yiddish Language ,2 vols, New Haven, Yale U.P., 2008, 1752 pp. (the first full English translation of the 1973 Yiddish text) describes an unbroken chain of migration and language shift (from Middle East to Roman-speaking areas of Europe, then to the Rhineland, and finally to Slavic-speaking territories), though recent publications suggest different models. Paul Wexler, of Tel Aviv University, has been playing the leading role among the ‘revisionists’, especially following his article ‘Yiddish — tf hie fteenth Slavic Language: A Study of the Partial Language Shift from Judeo-Sorbian to German IJ’S , L 91, 1991:1–50. According to Wexler, Yiddish has to be treated as an essentially a Slavic language, which put on a Germanic garb as
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Published: Jan 2, 2013
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