Dialects of the Yiddish Language

Modern research on dialects of the Yiddish language focuses in many instances upon Western Yiddish and the application of Yiddish dialectology to the study of older Yiddish and non-Yiddish monuments. The Second Oxford Winter Symposium on Yiddish Language and Literature reflects this trend and this collection of papers from the conference explores a wide range of contemporary research in the field.

For students of Judaica, linguistics, German philology and Slavic studies.

Preface: On the Second Winter Symposium. Dutch impact on Amsterdam Yiddish prints, M Aptroot. Words for 'God' in seventeenth century women's poetry in Yiddish, D Asher. An overlooked feature in Yiddish phonology, S Hiley. Early Yiddish texts and Western Yiddish dialectology, C Hutton. The first American attempt to produce a Yiddish language atlas, J Jofen. Origins of Yiddish dialectology, D Katz. East meets West: The dialectal climate of two early Eastern European Yiddish prints, D-B Kerler. Two of Weinreich's four riddles revisited, A D King. Early Yiddish in non-Jewish books, M N Rosenfeld. Is there a mystical dialect in modern Yiddish drama?, D Schneider. Symposium programme. Registered participants. Announcements.