{"product_id":"listening-to-the-languages-of-the-people-lazare-sainean-on-romanian-yiddish-and-french-9789633865934","title":"Listening to the Languages of the People: Lazare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLazăr Șăineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was a pioneer in his native Romania, seeking out the popular elements in culture along with high literary ones. He was among the first to publish a study of Yiddish as a genuine language, and he uncovered Turkish features in Romanian language and customs. He also made an index of hundreds of Romanian folktales. Yet when he sought Romanian citizenship and a professorship, he was blocked by powerful figures who thought Jews could not be Romanians and who fancied the origins of Romanian culture to be wholly Latin. Faced with anti-Semitism, some of his friends turned to Zionism. Instead he tried baptism, which brought him only mockery and shame.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoping to find a polity to which he could belong, Șăineanu moved with his family to Paris in 1900 and became Lazare Sainéan. There he made innovative studies of French popular speech and slang, culminating in his great work on the language of Rabelais. Once again, he was contributing to the development of a national tongue. Even then, while welcomed by literary scholars, Sainéan was unable to get a permanent university post. Though a naturalized citizen of France, he felt himself a foreigner, an “intruder,” into his old age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Davis quotes Sainéan’s own assessment of his situation at the end of his long career: ‘indeed, here, in regard to social relations, I am always still “the intruder”’. One of the virtues of her book is that she does not seek to hide her subject’s foibles—including a somewhat thin-skinned insistence on his own rightness, a certain defiant self-regard, a pragmatism that didn’t always do him much good. Rather, Davis goes constantly in search of more complex motives behind Sainéan’s scholarly preoccupations and life choices: this renders us a very human figure, whose story serves as a litmus for the atmosphere of the times through which he lived.\" (The review is complemented by the author's response.) https:\/\/reviews.history.ac.uk\/review\/2472 -- Alex Drace-Francis * Reviews in History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART ONE: ROMANIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Years: Studies and Friendships\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Field of Linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. FIRST PUBLICATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Science of Judaism: Advancing Emancipation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSemasiology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParis, Gaston Paris, and the Jours D’emprunt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeipzig and the neogrammarians\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. RESEARCH ON YIDDISH\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dialectological Study of Judeo-German\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpreading The Word on Yiddish\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB.p. Hasdeu, anti-semitism and jewish relations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. UNIVERSITY LECTURES AND NEW BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV. A. Urechiǎ and the first rejection of naturalization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFavorable Reviews and Marriage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e4. BASMELE ROMANE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Basmele Wins a Prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond Defeat of Request For Naturalization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf-Defense and Studies in Folklore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. THE \u003cem\u003eDICŤIONAR UNIVERSAL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNon-Zionist Jew and His Circle of Friends\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParis, London: Gaster and Zionism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParis: Nordau and Zionism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rejection of Zionism, The Dreyfus Affair\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaptism And Its Consequences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. THE ORIENTAL INFLUENCE ON THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eȘǎineanu and Other Jews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Months: Publication and Defeat\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepairing And Describing His Life: \u003cem\u003eThe Philological Career\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART TWO: FRANCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Emigré\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. LIVING AND MAKING A LIVING; SOME TRANSLATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudeo-German for The French Scholar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. THE POPULAR LANGUAGES OF FRANCE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRabelais\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLes Sources Indigènes\u003c\/em\u003e and Disappointment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. SUMMING UP\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguages And “The People” In The 1920s and 1930s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Jewish Critics on Sainéan’s Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047192035671,"sku":"9789633865934","price":100.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789633865934.jpg?v=1750970618","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/listening-to-the-languages-of-the-people-lazare-sainean-on-romanian-yiddish-and-french-9789633865934","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}