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Review
Review of Rebecca Margolis's Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Rebecca Margolis’ Yidish Lebt: Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission explores how a diverse range of native, heritage, and new speakers have ensured not only the continuity of a minority language widely thought to be endangered, but evolved Yiddish into a site of creative renewal in the Jewish world.
Jun 08, 2023