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Yiddish lives on : strategies of language transmission / Rebecca Margolis.

by Margolis, Rebecca.

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McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.

Yiddish language.

Yiddish language -- Social aspects.

Language and culture.

9780228014447 (pbk.)

371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Rebecca Margolis is director and Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. 'Yiddish Lives On' explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, the book offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages."

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