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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- New Negation Constructions in Modern Hebrew -- The Amarna Age Forerunners of Biblical Anti-Royalism -- Notes on the Literary Idiom of the Baghdadi Jews -- Louis Marshall and the Jewish Daily Forward: An Episode in Wartime Censorship, 1917-1918 -- A Note on the Monologue as a Literary Form: Sholem Aleichem's "Monologn" — A Test Case -- U.S. Census Data on Mother Tongues: Review, Extrapolations and Predictions -- Jewish Names in Early American Humor -- Überreste Westjiddischer Dialekte in der Schweiz, im Eisass und in Süddeutschland -- Crossing Water: A Folkloristic Motif -- Channels of Systematic Extinction in Yiddish Dialects -- The Creation of Accentual Iambs in European Poetry and Their First Employment in a Yiddish Romance in Italy (1508-09) -- The Term Canaan in Medieval Hebrew -- A Note on Methods of Research on the Economic History of the Jews -- A Falasha Book of Jewish Festivals -- The Systematic Interpretation of Gesture -- The Jew and the Indian: Traces of a Confusion in the Hispanic Tradition -- International Motifs in the Yiddish Ballad -- Balkan and Slavic Elements in the Judeo-Spanish of Yugoslavia -- Notes on the Languages of the Marranos and Sephardim in France -- Western Traits in Transcarpathian Yiddish -- The Ordeal of Bitter Waters and Andrea Del Sarto -- Abstracts of Yiddish Articles -- Abstracts of English Articles -- Bibliography of Max Weinreich's Writings -- Max Weinreich's Translation of Freud -- The East European Versions of Tsene-Rene, 1786-1850 -- An Unknown Manuscript by Mendele Moykher-Sforim -- The Two-Dimensional Conception of Reality in the World Image of Traditional East European Jewry -- Gleanings from the Vocabulary of a 15th-Century Yiddish Manuscript Collection of Customs -- Jacob Glatstein's Poetic Language -- Formal Problems in the Study of Yiddish Proverbs -- Gartl-henger -- Hebraisms in the Yiddish of 17th-Century Central Ashkenaz -- Neologisms in the Writings of Max Weinreich -- The Response of Second- and Third-Generation American Jews to the Catastrophe -- Problems in the Study of the Shmuel-bukh -- Water-Carriers' Societies -- Sholem Aleichem in the Stock Languages: Notes on Translations of "Dos tepl" into Ukrainian, German, Hebrew, English and Russian -- Six Hundred Years of Yiddish Translations of Psalms -- YIDDISH ARTICLES

For Max Weinreich on His Seventieth Birthday: Studies in Jewish languages, literature, and society

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      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Publication Date: 31/12/1964
      ISBN13: 9783112415153, 978-3112415153
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      Table of Contents
      Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- New Negation Constructions in Modern Hebrew -- The Amarna Age Forerunners of Biblical Anti-Royalism -- Notes on the Literary Idiom of the Baghdadi Jews -- Louis Marshall and the Jewish Daily Forward: An Episode in Wartime Censorship, 1917-1918 -- A Note on the Monologue as a Literary Form: Sholem Aleichem's "Monologn" — A Test Case -- U.S. Census Data on Mother Tongues: Review, Extrapolations and Predictions -- Jewish Names in Early American Humor -- Überreste Westjiddischer Dialekte in der Schweiz, im Eisass und in Süddeutschland -- Crossing Water: A Folkloristic Motif -- Channels of Systematic Extinction in Yiddish Dialects -- The Creation of Accentual Iambs in European Poetry and Their First Employment in a Yiddish Romance in Italy (1508-09) -- The Term Canaan in Medieval Hebrew -- A Note on Methods of Research on the Economic History of the Jews -- A Falasha Book of Jewish Festivals -- The Systematic Interpretation of Gesture -- The Jew and the Indian: Traces of a Confusion in the Hispanic Tradition -- International Motifs in the Yiddish Ballad -- Balkan and Slavic Elements in the Judeo-Spanish of Yugoslavia -- Notes on the Languages of the Marranos and Sephardim in France -- Western Traits in Transcarpathian Yiddish -- The Ordeal of Bitter Waters and Andrea Del Sarto -- Abstracts of Yiddish Articles -- Abstracts of English Articles -- Bibliography of Max Weinreich's Writings -- Max Weinreich's Translation of Freud -- The East European Versions of Tsene-Rene, 1786-1850 -- An Unknown Manuscript by Mendele Moykher-Sforim -- The Two-Dimensional Conception of Reality in the World Image of Traditional East European Jewry -- Gleanings from the Vocabulary of a 15th-Century Yiddish Manuscript Collection of Customs -- Jacob Glatstein's Poetic Language -- Formal Problems in the Study of Yiddish Proverbs -- Gartl-henger -- Hebraisms in the Yiddish of 17th-Century Central Ashkenaz -- Neologisms in the Writings of Max Weinreich -- The Response of Second- and Third-Generation American Jews to the Catastrophe -- Problems in the Study of the Shmuel-bukh -- Water-Carriers' Societies -- Sholem Aleichem in the Stock Languages: Notes on Translations of "Dos tepl" into Ukrainian, German, Hebrew, English and Russian -- Six Hundred Years of Yiddish Translations of Psalms -- YIDDISH ARTICLES

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