Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development

By Gennady Estraikh

This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184794
• ISBN13: 9780198184799
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 232 Pages