From the Market Place to the University: Yiddish Language and Culture as an Academic Field Cover Image

Od „żargonu” do jidysz i z targu na uniwersytet – kultura żydowska jako przedmiot akademicki
From the Market Place to the University: Yiddish Language and Culture as an Academic Field

Author(s): Nathan Cohen
Subject(s): Jewish studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Yiddish; teaching Yiddish; Yiddish in academia; jidysz; nauczanie języka i kultury jidisz; badania nad językiem jidysz

Summary/Abstract: In spite of the large number of literary works that were written and printed in Yiddish throughout the centuries, it was not considered as a valid language up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to a pioneering group of a few Jewish scholars, for whom Yiddish and Yiddishism became an ideological mission, new academic approaches were implemented into the study of Yiddish language, literature and culture. In the second half of the twentieth century a new generation of scholars broadened the range of research while developing new methods of work and training the next generation of experts. At the present time Yiddish studies are a respected academic field in various countries, including Poland, and cannot be overlooked anymore in the context of Jewish studies.

  • Issue Year: 17/2014
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 7-17
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish