{"product_id":"words-on-fire-the-unfinished-story-of-yiddish","title":"Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish","description":"\u003cp\u003eWords on Fire offers a rich  engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship  prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces the origins of Yiddish back to the Europe of a thousand years ago  and shows how those origins are themselves an uninterrupted continuation of the previous three millennia of Jewish history and culture in the Near East. Words on Fire narrates the history of the language from medieval times onward  through its development as written literature  particularly for and by Jewish women. In the wake of secularizing and modernizing movements of the nineteenth century  Yiddish rose spectacularly in a few short years from a mass folk idiom to the language of sophisticated modern literature  theater  and journalism. Although a secular Yiddish culture no longer exists  Katz argues that its resurgence among religious Jewish communities ensures that Yiddish will still be a thriving language in the twenty-first century. For anyone interested in Jewish history and tradition  Words on Fire will be a definitive account of this remarkable language and the culture that created and sustained it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956262793269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465037305","price":224.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465037308.jpg?v=1770318157","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/words-on-fire-the-unfinished-story-of-yiddish","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}