The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyWiener, Leo
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The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Wiener, Leo
Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
'Judas Maccabæus,' Longfellow's, translated, 168.
'Judel,' Abramowitsch's, an allegory, 97, 98;
and see 157.
Judeo-German, books, first printed, 4;
for women, 55;
language, transliteration, x;
abandoned in Germany, 6;
its history, 12-24;
its neglect, by scholars, 12;
by German Jews, 13;
prejudice not justified, 14;
compared with the evolution of other languages, 14, 15;
the Hebrew element in, 15-17;
analogy in non-Semitic languages with Arabic element, 17;
a German dialect group, 17, 18;
evolution in Slavic countries, 18;
Lithuanian dialect nearest to literary German, 18;
probable further development from Lithuanian dialect, 18, 19;
uniformity in books of previous centuries, 19;
Jargon of Blitz Bible, its cause, 19;
older stage of, in prayers, 19, 20;
Lefin regenerates the language, 20;
chaos of orthography, 21;
no linguistic norm, 21;
German influence, 21, 22;
large divergence in diction, 22, 23;
various names of, 23, 24;
differences between J. G. and German, 24;
dying out, 103, 104, 130;
resuscitated by Lefin, 137;
style from Lefin to Abramowitsch, 154;
and see Jargon; literature, not known to the world, xi;
in newspapers, xi;
result of anomalous situation of Jews, 3;
made possible through isolation, 5;
its medieval period in Germany, 5;
modern period not a continuation of old, 5;
identical in Slavic countries and in Germany before 19th century, 6;
affected by Hebrew, 7;
various phases of, 7-9;
compared with Bulgarian, 9;
ignorance of some investigators of, 9, 10;
sympathetic treatment of, 10;
its future, 10, 11, 214, 215;
history of, Dienesohn's, 192;
Schulmann's, 200.
_Jüdisch_, 23.
_Jüdisch-amerikanischer Volkskalender_, 238, 253.
_Jüdisch-teutsch_, 23.
_Jüdische Bibliothēk, Die_, Perez's, its history and its aims, 207, 208;
and see 190, 213, 252.
'Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten,' Schudt's, 231.
_Jüdische Post, Die_, 72, 251.
_Jüdische Universalbibliothēk_, 36.
_Jüdische Volksbibliothēk, Die_, Rabinowitsch's, its birth and aims, 110;
compared with _Hausfreund_, 194;
its superiority, 198, 199;
its criticisms, 200;
and see ix, 29, 76, 87, 90, 91, 96, 107, 116, 164, 190, 195, 202.
_Jüdischer Handelskalender, Der_, 253;
and see 87, 202.
_Jüdischer Volkskalender_, 253;
and see 107, 202.
_Jüdischer Wecker, Der_, 76, 87, 91, 106, 194, 201.
_Jüdisches Volksblatt_, its birth, 105;
its history, 178, 179;
literary part conducted by Spektor, 179;
Spektor severs his connection with, 186;
criticisms in, 200;
and see 12, 13, 30, 51, 76, 83, 90, 91, 99, 101, 106,
107, 116, 126, 140, 156, 172, 187, 190, 194, 202, 238.
'Jüngling am Bache, Der,' Schiller's, translated, 76.
Junosza, Klemens, on J. G. literature, 10;
translates Abramowitsch, 157, 159.
Jusefov, book printed at, 232.
'Kabale und Liebe,' Schiller's, translated, 241.
_Kahal_, 90, 156.
Kaindl, R. F., 44, 54.
Kaiser, W., 116.
Kalmus, Ulrich, 91, 167, 168.
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