{"product_id":"yiddish-a-nation-of-words","title":"Yiddish: A Nation of Words","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eYiddish: A Nation of Words\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMiriam Weinstein\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e1586420275\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSteerforth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e300\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThis first-ever popular history of Yiddish is so full of life that it reads like a biography of the language. \u003cbr\u003eFor a thousand years Yiddish was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In it they produced one of the world's most richly human cultures. \u003cbr\u003eImpoverished and disenfranchised in the eyes of the world, Yiddish-speakers created their own alternate reality - wealthy in appreciation of the varieties of human behavior, spendthrift in humor, brilliantly inventive in maintaining and strengthening community. For a people of exile, the language took the place of a nation. The written and spoken word formed the Yiddishland that never came to be. Words were army, university, city-state, territory. They were a people's home. \u003cbr\u003eThe tale, which has never before been told, is nothing short of miraculous - the saving of a people through speech. It ranges far beyond Europe, from North America to Israel to the Russian-Chinese border, and from the end of the first millenium to the present day. This book requires no previous knowledge of Yiddish or of Jewish history - just a curious mind and an open heart.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Steerforth","offers":[{"title":"Yiddish: A Nation of Words | Miriam Weinstein | Hardcover | 1586420275 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1782248","offer_id":67698353307800,"sku":"1782248","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61TlU-d6InL.jpg?v=1791862269","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/yiddish-a-nation-of-words","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}