A sociolinguistic study of Yiddish English in New York
by
Ruchel Jarach-Sztern
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
For more than one century, Yiddish has been in contact with American English. To examine the linguistic traces of this contact we first retrace the background of Jewish immigration to the United States and present a history of Yiddish as a “contact language”.
We then proceed to the diachronic,...